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fast_gup for shared futexes
| From: | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | |
| To: | Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>, Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | |
| Subject: | [RFC PATCH 0/2] fast_gup for shared futexes | |
| Date: | Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:33:32 +0200 | |
| Message-ID: | <20080404193332.348493000@chello.nl> | |
| Cc: | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org | |
| Archive-link: | Article, Thread |
Hi, this patch series removes mmap_sem from the fast path of shared futexes by making use of Nick's recent fast_gup() patches. Full series at: http://programming.kicks-ass.net/kernel-patches/futex-fas... --