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

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26               <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>