The most expensive operation in the page fault handler is (apart of SMP
locking overhead) the zeroing of the page. This zeroing means that all
cachelines of the faulted page (on Altix that means all 128 cachelines of
128 byte each) must be loaded and later written back. This patch allows to
avoid having to load all cachelines if only a part of the cachelines of
that page is needed immediately after the fault.

eh why will all cachelines be loaded? Surely you can avoid the write-
allocate behavior for this case.....


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