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SubjectRe: aim7 performance regression by commit 5a50508 report from LKP

* Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> > or whether the lock hold times could be reduced drastically
>
> I also found one, but it doesn't sound like the one will
> reduce lock hold times drastically:
>
> vma_lock_anon_vma() seems covered too much code at
> expand_up/downwards.
>
> Well, again, it's quite a tiny optimization for reducing the
> coverage.

The fundamental problem is I think that there's a single anon
vma lock for the whole workload, right?

Is that really fundamentally needed, could that be spread out
perhaps?

( But first we want to see how much of the regression we can fix
in an equivalent-locking-patterns fashion - improving locking
is a separate matter. )

Thanks,

Ingo


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