Re: Subject: [RFC MM] mmap_sem scaling: Use mutex and percpucounter instead

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 12:08:54PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > Yes but all the major calls still take mmap_sem, which is not ranged.
> 
> But exactly that issue is addressed by this patch!

Major calls = mmap, brk, etc.

Only for page faults, not for anything that takes it for write.

Anyways the better reader lock is a step in the right direction, but
I have my doubts it's a good idea to make write really slow here.

-Andi
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