Re: Subpages (was: Page Colouring)

Linus Torvalds
2003-12-29T20:16:59Z

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> I took a stab at implementing subpages some time ago in 2.4 and got it mostly
> working but not quite bootable. I did find out roughly how invasive the
> patch is, which is: not very, unless I've overlooked something major. I'll
> get busy on a 2.6 prototype, and of course I'll listen attentively for
> reasons why this plan won't work.

Ah, ok. I thought it was further along than that.

If so, let's consider that possibility a more long-range plan - it is
independent of just making PAGE_CACHE_SIZE be bigger.

Linus