linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 00/16] move per-vma lock into vm_area

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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 08:08:25 -0800
From: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/16] move per-vma lock into vm_area_struct

On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 1/10/25 1:16 AM, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 7:59 AM Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 5:40 AM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz> 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

Ok, I'll use that. Thanks!

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