[PATCH v6 00/71] Introducing the Maple Tree
Andrew Morton
akpm at linux-foundation.org
Wed Feb 16 11:47:00 PST 2022
On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 14:37:44 +0000 Liam Howlett <liam.howlett at oracle.com> wrote:
> The maple tree is an RCU-safe range based B-tree designed to use modern
> processor cache efficiently. There are a number of places in the kernel
> that a non-overlapping range-based tree would be beneficial, especially
> one with a simple interface. The first user that is covered in this
> patch set is the vm_area_struct, where three data structures are
> replaced by the maple tree: the augmented rbtree, the vma cache, and the
> linked list of VMAs in the mm_struct. The long term goal is to reduce
> or remove the mmap_sem contention.
Has a path been chosen which gets us from here to significant reduction
in mmap_lock overhead?
If so, what's the plan and what must be done?
Thanks.
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