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Subject: Re: [RFC] Re: Costless huge virtual memory? /dev/same, /dev/null?
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(Ideally we'd be able to take the MAP_HUGETLB mmap flag into account to
map a single huge page repeatedly, even lowering the populating cost,
but AIUI of the current hugepage support it would be far from easy)

Samuel