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SubjectRe: [RFC 0/6] x86: prefetch_page() vDSO call
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 11:29:04PM -0800, Nadav Amit wrote:
> Just as applications can use prefetch instructions to overlap
> computations and memory accesses, applications may want to overlap the
> page-faults and compute or overlap the I/O accesses that are required
> for page-faults of different pages.

Isn't this madvise(MADV_WILLNEED)?

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