Re: changing mm->mmap_sem (was: Re: system call for process

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Sun, 18 Mar 2001 23:59:18 -0300 (BRST)


On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >
> > Indeed, having threaded apps do multiple page faults at the
> > same time is the main goal of this patch. However, I don't
> > see how it would be good for scalability to have multiple
> > threads fault in the same page at the same time, when they
> > could just wait for one of them to do the work.
>
> But they will.
>
> That's what lock_page() etc are there for - there's no need for the VM
> to synchronize because we already have the synchronization primitives
> at a lower level.

Indeed. I'll go multithread the do_no_page and do_swap_page
functions tomorrow (maybe even tonight ;)).

regards,

Rik

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