Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] mm: defer address-space teardown of large exiting processes to a kthread

"David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-trace-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-doc,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kvack.linux-mm
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> says that the s390 case was addressed with KVM specific async destruction,
> but what you point to is QEMU's shadow process. I will correct that in v2.

CLONE_VM seems to work for the use cases you had in mind.

There would have to be a *pretty* convincing story why we would want more
complexity in the kernel to handle this.

Some smaller performance improvements are not worth it.
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Cheers,

David
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