Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9

Eric W. Biederman
2001-09-23T13:23:33Z

Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:

> > I would also like to have time to investigate what happens if the pages
> > associated with a program load are handled in larger blocks, meta-pages
> > perhaps, which would at least cause many to be loaded at once on a page
> > fault, rather than faulting them in one at a time.
>
> This is an interesting thing, too. Something to look into for
> 2.5 and if it turns out simple enough we may even want to
> backport it to 2.4.

filemap_nopage already does all of this except put the page in the
page table.

Eric