Re: [PATCH v12 21/31] mm: Introduce find_vma_rcu()

From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Tue Apr 23 2019 - 14:13:34 EST


On Tue, 23 Apr 2019, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

Also; the initial motivation was prefaulting large VMAs and the
contention on mmap was killing things; but similarly, the contention on
the refcount (I did try that) killed things just the same.

Right, this is just like what can happen with per-vma locking.

Thanks,
Davidlohr