Re: [PATCH] mm: MADV_WILLNEED implementation for anonymous memory

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Jan 31 2008 - 04:35:56 EST



On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 01:12 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Implementation-wise: make_pages_present() _can_ be converted to do this.
> But it's a lot of patching, and the result will be a cleaner, faster and
> smaller core MM. Whereas your approach is easy, but adds more code and
> leaves the old stuff slow-and-dirty.
>
> Guess which approach is preferred? ;)

Ok, I'll look at using make_pages_present().

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