On 08/02/2018 21:53, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 17:49:46 +0100 Laurent Dufour
> wrote:
>
>> This is a port on kernel 4.15 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 wit
On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 17:49:46 +0100 Laurent Dufour
wrote:
> This is a port on kernel 4.15 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 bett
This is a port on kernel 4.15 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
process since the page fault han