Zone-lock and mmap_sem scalability
Zone-lock and mmap_sem scalability
[Kernel] Posted May 3, 2018 14:38 UTC (Thu) by corbet
The memory-management subsystem is a central point that handles all of the system's memory, so it is naturally subject to scalability problems as systems grow larger. Two sessions during the memory-management track of the 2018 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit looked at specific contention points: the zone locks and the mmap_sem semaphore.
