Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] mm: defer address-space teardown of large exiting processes to a kthread
From: David Hildenbrand (Arm)
Date: Tue Jul 21 2026 - 06:24:05 EST
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> says that the s390 case was addressed with KVM specific async destruction,
> but what you point to is QEMU's shadow process. I will correct that in v2.
CLONE_VM seems to work for the use cases you had in mind.
There would have to be a *pretty* convincing story why we would want more
complexity in the kernel to handle this.
Some smaller performance improvements are not worth it.
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Cheers,
David