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Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 11:16:11 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: [patch 6/12] hold atomic kmaps across generic_file_read
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On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> and having it magically populate the VM directly with the whole file
> mapping, with _one_ failed page fault. And the above is actually a fairly
> common thing. See how many people have tried to optimize using mmap vs
> read, and what they _all_ really wanted was this "populate the pages in
> one go" thing.

If this is worth it, chances are prefaulting at mmap() time
could also be worth trying ... hmmm ;)

Rik
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