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Subject[PATCH 0/6] vmtrunc: lowlat vmtruncate drop i_mmap_lock
Here's a set of patches against 2.6.9-rc3-mm1, or Ingo's -S7 VP tree:
allow lower latency in vmtruncate (more generally, unmap_mapping_range)
by dropping the i_mmap_lock when required. Though I've been focussing
on correctness rather than latency myself: do these work for you, Ingo?

1/6 undoes something of Andrea's, 2/6 undoes something of Ingo's:
I thought I might as well provide patches as ask the questions, please
let us know why if you disagree with them. 3/6 is cosmetic, 4/6 is
the real work, 5/6 corrects some loose ends, 6/6 is for testing.

Worth the effort, and ~700 bytes bloat, and additional int in each vma?
If only root could run-bash-shared-mappings, I'd say not worth it; but
it seems a little like prio_tree itself, we're not sure we need it,
but feel more secure to have the solution.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
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drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c | 1
fs/inode.c | 1
include/linux/fs.h | 2
include/linux/mm.h | 8 +
kernel/fork.c | 1
mm/memory.c | 223 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
mm/mmap.c | 14 ++
mm/mremap.c | 16 +--
mm/rmap.c | 9 -
mm/truncate.c | 1
10 files changed, 215 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)

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