From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 09:23:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 09:23:23 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:31330 "EHLO flinx.biederman.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 09:23:08 -0400 To: Rik van Riel Cc: Bill Davidsen , Stephan von Krawczynski , Subject: Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9 In-Reply-To: From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 23 Sep 2001 07:13:07 -0600 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rik van Riel 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