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On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, David Gibson wrote:

> Well, the COW patch implements a fault handler, obviously.  What
> specifically where you thinking about?

About a fault handler of course and about surrounding scalability issues.
I worked on some hugepage related patches last fall. Have you had a look 
at the work of Ken, Ray and me on the subject?