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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: Implementing NVMHCI...
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:22:13 +0200
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
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> You absolutely do _not_ want to manage memory in 16kB chunks (or 64kB for 
> your example!).

AFAIK at least for user visible anonymous memory Windows uses 64k 
chunks. At least that is what Cygwin's mmap exposes. I don't know
if it does the same for disk cache.

-Andi
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