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But is it really worth it? Most > file-backed page faults are resolved through the ->map_pages() path > which is almost always filemap_map_pages(), which does something > fairly similar to this already. Do you have any performance numbers? Yes. The real benefit this patch brings could be very minor. I will try to get some performance data against this patch. Thanks. Regards Yin, Fengwei