On Sat 30-06-18 06:39:40, Yang Shi wrote: > > Background: > Recently, when we ran some vm scalability tests on machines with large memory, > we ran into a couple of mmap_sem scalability issues when unmapping large memory > space, please refer to https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/14/733 and > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/20/576. > > > History: > Then akpm suggested to unmap large mapping section by section and drop mmap_sem > at a time to mitigate it (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/6/784). > > V1 patch series was submitted to the mailing list per Andrew’s suggestion > (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/20/786). Then I received a lot great feedback > and suggestions. > > Then this topic was discussed on LSFMM summit 2018. In the summit, Michal Hock > suggested (also in the v1 patches review) to try "two phases" approach. Zapping > pages with read mmap_sem, then doing via cleanup with write mmap_sem (for > discussion detail, see https://lwn.net/Articles/753269/) The cover letter should really describe your approach to the problem. But there is none here. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
