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    SubjectRe: [patch] epoll use a single inode ...

    > Yeah, I'm not at all surprised. Any implementation of "prefetch" that
    > doesn't just turn into a no-op if the TLB entry doesn't exist (which makes
    > them weaker for *actual* prefetching) will generally have a hard time with
    > a NULL pointer. Exactly because it will try to do a totally unnecessary
    > TLB fill - and since most CPU's will not cache negative TLB entries, that
    > unnecessary TLB fill will be done over and over and over again..

    Yeah this is exactly what we were seeing :)

    Anton
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