Re: Populating multiple ptes at fault time

[Christoph Lameter]

Martin Bligh wrote:
>> My patches were only for anonymous pages not for file backed because readahead
>> is available for file backed mappings.
> 
> Do we populate the PTEs though? I didn't think that was batched, but I
> might well be wrong.

We do not populate the PTEs and AFAICT PTE population was assumed not to be
performance critical since the backing media is comparatively slow.

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