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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 06:03:44 -0700 (PDT)

> In order to make it truly dynamic we would have to virtually map the
> area.  vmap? But that reduces performance.

But it would still be faster than the double-indirection we do now,
right?