On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 02:18:23PM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote: > Following the series pushed by Davidlohr Bueso based on the Jan Kara's > work [1] which introduces range locks, this series implements the > first step of the attempt to replace the mmap_sem by a range lock. Have you previously documented attempts to replace the mmap_sem by an existing lock type before introducing a new (and frankly weird) lock? My initial question is "Why not use RCU for this?" -- the rxrpc code uses an rbtree protected by RCU. -- 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>