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Howlett" , Suren Baghdasaryan , Lorenzo Stoakes , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, david@kernel.org, vbabka@kernel.org, rppt@kernel.org, mhocko@suse.com, jack@suse.cz, pfalcato@suse.de, wanglian@kylinos.cn, chentao@kylinos.cn, lianux.mm@gmail.com, kunwu.chan@gmail.com, liyangouwen1@oppo.com, chrisl@kernel.org, kasong@tencent.com, shikemeng@huaweicloud.com, nphamcs@gmail.com, bhe@redhat.com, youngjun.park@lge.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, loongarch@lists.linux.dev, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Nanzhe Zhao Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] mm: reduce mmap_lock contention and improve page fault performance Message-ID: References: <5zdaa5uv5oj27q3taopl3amops57ouxgyfsdveudz4ovmbdw7z@6lwrlyvmhcp2> X-Mailing-List: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Archive: , List-Subscribe: , , List-Unsubscribe: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 05:14:20AM +0800, Barry Song wrote: > My understanding is that we should not blame applications here. This is 2026: > there are basically only two kinds of applications — single-threaded and > multi-threaded — and single-threaded applications are nearly extinct. all of the applications i run are either single threaded or don't fork. what multithreaded applications call fork?