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

William Lee Irwin III
2007-06-18T04:49:45Z

On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:
>> Is it? Last I looked it had reverted to handing out reverse-contiguous
>> pages.

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 07:08:41PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> I thought that was fixed? Bill Irwin was working on it.
> But the contiguous pages usually only work shortly after boot. After
> awhile memory gets sufficiently scrambled that the coalescing in the I/O
> layer becomes ineffective.

It fell off the bottom of my priority queue, sorry.

-- wli