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charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Fri, May 01, 2026 at 05:06:02PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2026 at 04:52:12PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > > After a brief eyeball I share Matthew's assessment, I really don't like this > > series, it's piling on complexity for what seem like niche cases. > > I don't think they're niche cases ... I think it's a real problem. > While our current code performs better for this workload than the > pre-vma-lock code did, it doesn't perform as well as it could. > > > We already have enough weirdness in fault code honestly. > > > > Let's maybe discuss at LSF if you're attending? > > Not only is he attending, there's a topic scheduled (currently 10:30 on > Wednesday). Well then, let's revisit this in person in Zagreb :) Cheers, Lorenzo