linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] sched+mm: Track lazy active mm existence with hazard pointers

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Message-ID: <20241005161537.GB18071@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 18:15:37 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] sched+mm: Track lazy active mm existence with
 hazard pointers

On Wed, Oct 02, 2024 at 10:39:15AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So I think the real issue is that "active_mm" is an old hack from a
> bygone era when we didn't have the (much more involved) full TLB
> tracking.

I still seem to have these patches that neither Andy nor I ever managed
to find time to finish:

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/queue.git/log/?h=x86/lazy