This patchset attempts to reduce the amount of contention we impose on the hugetlb_instantiation_mutex by replacing the global mutex with a table of mutexes, selected based on a hash. The original discussion can be found here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/12/428 Patch 1: Allows the file region tracking list to be serialized by its own rwsem. This is necessary because the next patch allows concurrent hugepage fault paths, getting rid of the hugetlb_instantiation_mutex - which protects chains of struct file_regionin inode->i_mapping->private_list (VM_MAYSHARE) or vma_resv_map(vma)->regions (!VM_MAYSHARE). Patch 2: From David Gibson, for some reason never made it into the kernel. Further cleanups and enhancements from Anton Blanchard and myself. Details of how the hash key is selected is in the patch. Davidlohr Bueso (2): hugepage: protect file regions with rwsem hugepage: allow parallelization of the hugepage fault path mm/hugetlb.c | 134 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 106 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) -- 1.7.11.7 -- 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>