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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH RESEND 00/28] per-VMA locks proposal
On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 10:34:48AM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> This is a proof of concept for per-vma locks idea that was discussed
> during SPF [1] discussion at LSF/MM this year [2], which concluded with
> suggestion that “a reader/writer semaphore could be put into the VMA
> itself; that would have the effect of using the VMA as a sort of range
> lock. There would still be contention at the VMA level, but it would be an
> improvement.” This patchset implements this suggested approach.

The whole reason I started the SPF thing waay back when was because one
of the primary reporters at the time had very large VMAs and a per-vma
lock wouldn't actually help anything at all.

IIRC it was either scientific code initializing a huge matrix or a
database with a giant table; I'm sure the archives have better memory
than me.

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