> > I would also like to have time to investigate what happens if the pages
> > associated with a program load are handled in larger blocks, meta-pages
> > perhaps, which would at least cause many to be loaded at once on a page
> > fault, rather than faulting them in one at a time.
>
> This is an interesting thing, too. Something to look into for
> 2.5 and if it turns out simple enough we may even want to
> backport it to 2.4.
filemap_nopage already does all of this except put the page in the
page table.
Eric
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