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From: "Eric J. Chet" <ejc@bazzle.com>
To: James Mansion <james@westongold.com>
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On Thu, 15 May 1997, James Mansion wrote:

> Is this 'because of the way it happens to be implemented' or something
> fundamental?
> 
> Is there any way that one could add a hint to say that the access will
> be sequential, or that it should fault in multiple pages?
> 
> Some extra flags as an extension?
> 

Hello
	madvise(addr, len, MADV_SEQUENTIAL)
 
ejc