This patchset resumes the work to improve the whole hugepage fault scalability path. Previous efforts can be found here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/26/299 https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/18/50 The latest attempt to address the big-fat hugetlb instantiation mutex by removing the need for it altogether ended up having too much of an overhead to consider and allow scalability. The discussion can be found at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/1/3/244 This patchset is divided in three parts, where the first seven patches, from Joonsoo, have been included and reviewed in previous patchsets. The last patch is the actual performance one. Part 1. (1-3) Introduce new protection method for region tracking data structure, instead of the hugetlb_instantiation_mutex. There is race condition when we map the hugetlbfs file to two different processes. To prevent it, we need to new protection method like as this patchset. Part 2. (4-7) clean-up. These make code really simple, so these are worth to go into mainline separately. Part 4 (8) Use a table of mutexes instead of a unique one, and allow faults to be handled in parallel. Benefits and caveats to this approach are in the patch. All changes have passed the libhugetblfs test cases. This patchset applies on top of Linus' current tree (3.13-77d143de) Thanks! mm, hugetlb: unify region structure handling mm, hugetlb: region manipulation functions take resv_map rather list_head mm, hugetlb: fix race in region tracking mm, hugetlb: remove resv_map_put mm, hugetlb: use vma_resv_map() map types mm, hugetlb: remove vma_has_reserves mm, hugetlb: mm, hugetlb: unify chg and avoid_reserve to use_reserve mm, hugetlb: improve page-fault scalability fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 17 ++- include/linux/hugetlb.h | 10 ++ mm/hugetlb.c | 323 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 3 files changed, 206 insertions(+), 144 deletions(-) -- 1.8.1.4 -- 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>