On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 10:02:21AM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> The mmap() syscall only sets up the VMA info, it doesn't
> fill in the page tables. That only happens when the process
> page faults.
> Note that filling in a bunch of page table entries mapping
> already present pagecache pages at exec() time might be a
> good idea. It's just that nobody has gotten around to that
> yet...
SVR4 did and saw an improvement wrt. page fault rate, according to
Vahalia.
I'd like to see whether this is useful for Linux.
-- wli
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