From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: Anticipatory prefaulting in the page fault handler V1 Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 09:44:09 -0800 Message-ID: From: "Luck, Tony" Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter , nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au Cc: Jeff Garzik , torvalds@osdl.org, hugh@veritas.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: >If a fault occurred for page x and is then followed by page >x+1 then it may be reasonable to expect another page fault >at x+2 in the future. What if the application had used "madvise(start, len, MADV_RANDOM)" to tell the kernel that this isn't "reasonable"? -Tony -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org