On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

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> On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:19:49 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> 
> > The page cache handling in the various layers is significantly 
> > simplified which reduces maintenance cost.
> 
> How on earth can the *addition* of variable pagecache size simplify the
> existing code?

Because the page cache code is full of manual shifts and adds. Its a mess. 
Adding appropriate accessors simplifies the code. I took that opportunity 
to slide in an address space parameter into the accessors which allows to 
have sets of accessors for single page size and multi page size 
configurations.

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