RE: Anticipatory prefaulting in the page fault handler V1

[Luck, Tony]

>We could use that as a way to switch of the preallocation. How 
>expensive is that check?

If you already looked up the vma, then it is very cheap.  Just
check for VM_RAND_READ in vma->vm_flags.

-Tony
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