Re: [patch 00/14] Page cache cleanup in anticipation of Large Blocksize support

Christoph Lameter
2007-06-14T21:37:41Z

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> We want the 100% case.

Yes that is what we intend to do. Universal support for larger blocksize.
I.e. your desktop filesystem will use 64k page size and server platforms
likely much larger. fsck times etc etc are becoming an issue for desktop
systems given the capacities and lockinhg becomes an issue the more
multicore your desktops become.