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Oh, thanks. I feel silly for not associating his name with that. > if he views the mmap_lock issue to be that fundamental then he's one of the few people who w
by scottlamb 4y ago
Oh, thanks. I feel silly for not associating his name with that.
> if he views the mmap_lock issue to be that fundamental then he's one of the few people who would know.
Very disappointing news if so. :-( But I don't see anything in this recent article to suggest that it's unsolvable. https://lwn.net/Articles/893906/ https://lwn.net/Articles/893906/ It'd be a shame to carry around a weird extra interface indefinitely because mmap_lock scalability didn't happen quite soon enough.