Re: [PATCH v8 00/16] move per-vma lock into vm_area_struct

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Fri Jan 10 2025 - 10:35:46 EST




On 1/10/25 1:16 AM, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 7:59 AM Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 5:40 AM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Btw the subject became rather incomplete given all the series does :)
>>
>> Missed this one. What do you think is worth mentioning here? It's
>> true, the patchset does many small things but I wanted to outline the
>> main conceptual changes. Please LMK if you think there are more
>> changes big enough to be mentioned here.
>
> I just realized that your comment was only about the subject of this
> cover letter. Maybe something like this:
>
> per-vma lock and vm_area_struct cache optimizations

arguably the biggest change here is:

reimplement per-vma lock as a refcount

but yours is ok to, don't want to bikeshed