On Thursday 14 June 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Christophs patches are an extremly useful cleanup and can stand on their
> own. Right now PAGE_CACHE_SIZE and friends are in there and now one can
> keep them distinct because their useage is not clear at all. By making
> the macros per-mapping at least the useage is clear.
>
> That beeing said we should do a full conversion so that PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
> just goes away, otherwise the whole excercise is rather pointless.
I agree with Christoph and Christoph here. The page_cache_xxx() macros are
cleaner than PAGE_CACHE_SIZE. Too many places have gotten it wrong too many
times. Let's go ahead with them even if we never implement variable cache
page size.
Dave McCracken
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