The LRU lock and mmap_sem
The LRU lock and mmap_sem
Posted Apr 30, 2018 17:07 UTC (Mon) by luto (subscriber, #39314)Parent article: The LRU lock and mmap_sem
I'm surprised that range locking is seen as insufficient. I've seen severe performance issues where a page fault gets stuck behind IO triggered by munmap() or similar on an entirely different VMA.