Re: [PATCH v11 00/26] Speculative page faults

From: Balbir Singh
Date: Mon Nov 05 2018 - 05:42:12 EST


On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 01:06:07PM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> This is a port on kernel 4.17 of the work done by Peter Zijlstra to handle
> page fault without holding the mm semaphore [1].
>
> The idea is to try to handle user space page faults without holding the
> mmap_sem. This should allow better concurrency for massively threaded

Question -- I presume mmap_sem (rw_semaphore implementation tested against)
was qrwlock?

Balbir Singh.