Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: Anticipatory prefaulting in the page fault handler V1 | Date | Wed, 8 Dec 2004 09:44:09 -0800 | From | "Luck, Tony" <> |
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>If a fault occurred for page x and is then followed by page >x+1 then it may be reasonable to expect another page fault >at x+2 in the future.
What if the application had used "madvise(start, len, MADV_RANDOM)" to tell the kernel that this isn't "reasonable"?
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