RE: Anticipatory prefaulting in the page fault handler V1

[Luck, Tony]

>If a fault occurred for page x and is then followed by page 
>x+1 then it may be reasonable to expect another page fault
>at x+2 in the future.

What if the application had used "madvise(start, len, MADV_RANDOM)"
to tell the kernel that this isn't "reasonable"?

-Tony
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