On Fri 18-11-16 12:08:44, Laurent Dufour wrote: > This is a port on kernel 4.8 of the work done by Peter Zijlstra to > handle page fault without holding the mm semaphore. > > http://linux-kernel.2935.n7.nabble.com/RFC-PATCH-0-6-Another-go-at-speculative-page-faults-tt965642.html#none > > This series is not yet functional, I'm sending it to get feedback > before going forward in the wrong direction. It's building on top of > the 4.8 kernel but some task remain stuck at runtime, so there is > still need for additional work. > > According to the review made by Kirill A. Shutemov on the Peter's > work, there are still pending issues around the VMA sequence count > management. I'll look at it right now. > > Kirill, Peter, if you have any tips on the place where VMA sequence > count should be handled, please advise. I believe that a highlevel description of the change would be _more_ than welcome. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>