Article 3PAMP [$] Zone-lock and mmap_sem scalability

[$] Zone-lock and mmap_sem scalability

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The memory-management subsystem is a central point that handles all of thesystem's memory, so it is naturally subject to scalability problems assystems grow larger. Two sessions during the memory-management track ofthe 2018 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit looked atspecific contention points: the zone locks and the mmap_semsemaphore.
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