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Message-ID: <1262884960.4049.106.camel@laptop>
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:22:40 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
"minchan.kim@...il.com" <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
"hugh.dickins" <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/8] mm: handle_speculative_fault()
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 08:19 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> So now some paths are indeed holding it for writing (or need to wait for
> it to become writable). And the fairness of rwsems quite possibly then
> impacts throughput a _lot_..
Right, supposing we can make this speculative fault stuff work, then we
can basically reduce the mmap_sem usage in fault to:
- allocating new page tables
- extending the growable vmas
And do everything else without holding it, including zeroing and IO.
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