Re: Futexes & Folios

[Davidlohr Bueso]

On Sat, 13 May 2023, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> Here's a patch which converts the futex code from using pages to using
> folios.  I do have some questions.
>
> - I assume we really do want to base the key on the page offset of the
>   futex in the file.  That is, it's not good enough to base the key
>   on the folio's index because the folio can be split after setting up
>   the key, and if it is we'd then fail to find the futex later.
> - In hugetlbfs, it doesn't matter whether the pgoff is based on base
>   pages or huge page size -- as long as it's consistent between
>   invocations, everything will work

As tglx already mentioned, yes to both.

> (I have ideas about a get_user_folio() but those are not represented in
> this patch)

Btw, regarding some of the concerns about the gup overhead for futexes
in the physr discussion at lsfmm; 'perf bench futex hash' would be a good
way of measuring any impact at a micro level and going from there. This
is only necessary of course for shared futexes, fast/private ones just
use the address space.

Thanks,
Davidlohr