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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] Futex non-page-pinning fix
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
>
> > I think a better place to rehash the futex would be at the point where the
> > page is added to and removed from swapcache.
>
> This is simplest: the current code actually moves the futex queue out
> of the hash. If we make the rule: "call futex_rehash" every time
> page->mapping (or page->index) changes, we avoid races and make the
> code simpler.
>
> But this means it could be called quite often.

Moving pages to and from swapcache really is not a fastpath at all,
so I wouldn't be worrying about that.

And even if the code is sucky, it will only be sucky when there is a lot of
swapcache activity AND a lot of futexes are in use.



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