[PATCH 00/16] Speculative page faults

2017-08-08 Thread Laurent Dufour
This is a port on kernel 4.13 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

[PATCH 00/16] Speculative page faults

2017-08-08 Thread Laurent Dufour
This is a port on kernel 4.13 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