On Fri, 18 May 2007 06:08:54 +0200 Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:

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> Many batch operations on struct page are completely random,

But they shouldn't be: we should aim to place physically contiguous pages
into logically contiguous pagecache slots, for all the reasons we
discussed.

If/when that happens, there will be a *lot* of locality of reference
against the pageframes in a lot of important codepaths.

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