On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:43:48PM +0100, Ben Harris wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Ian Fry wrote:
> > > For the most part, buffering in the kernel should be in page-sized chunks
> > > these days, which is less than wonderful for us.
> > Indeed :-( Is there anyway we could get the kernel memory allocator to
> > sub-divide pages into 'virtual' ones - say 4 or 8k, rather than 32?
> Not unless we can persuade the MEMC to do the same.  

Drat! MEMC uses a fixed 32k page, doesn't it? So, that'd be a no go.

> There are some areas where it might be possible to avoid using whole pages,
> but the page cache isn't one of them.

Obviously - it's wouldn't be a 'page cache' then! ;-)

Ian.