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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: page fault fastpath: Increasing SMP scalability by introducing
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Is the read lock in the VMA semaphore enough to let you do
the pgd/pmd walking without the page_table_lock?
I think it is, but just checking.