linux-kernel - Re: Populating multiple ptes at fault time

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Date:	Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:21:21 -0700
From:	"Martin Bligh" <mbligh@...gle.com>
To:	"Christoph Lameter" <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Chris Snook" <csnook@...hat.com>,
	"Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@...p.org>,
	"Nick Piggin" <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	"Hugh Dickens" <hugh@...itas.com>,
	"Linux Memory Management List" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Avi Kivity" <avi@...ranet.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rik van Riel" <riel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Populating multiple ptes at fault time

>>>> Yup, basically you're assuming good locality of reference, but it turns
>>>> out that (as davej would say) "userspace sucks".
>>> Well, *most* userspace sucks.  It might still be worthwhile to do this when
>>> userspace is using madvise().
>>
>> Quite possibly true ... something to benchmark.
>
> Well, I guess we need a new binary format that allows one to execute binaries
> in kernel address space with full powers.

Seems ... extreme ;-)
Maybe we just do it if we're in readahead? (or similar)
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