From: kpusukur
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 12:35:20 -0700
> We would welcome feedback and discussion of potential problems.
>
> We would also like to hear ideas for other areas in the kernel where a
> similar technique could be employed. For example, we've also applied
> this idea to copy on write op
A prototype implementation of multi-threaded clear_huge_page() function
based on the kernel work queue mechansim speeds up the function by up to
5x. The existing code requires 320ms to clear a 2Gb huge page on a Sparc
M7 processor, while the multi-threaded version achieves this in 65ms
using 16
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