Re: [PATCH 4/4] VM/RMAP: Move avc freeing outside the lock

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On 05/05/2011 03:32 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
From: Andi Kleen<ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Now that the avc locking is batched move the freeing of AVCs
outside the lock. This lowers lock contention somewhat more on
a fork/exit intensive workload.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen<ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel<riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

I believe that calling put_anon_vma outside of the lock is
safe, but am not 100% sure.

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