[$] Toward better handling of major page faults
Date:
Fri, 22 May 2026 13:50:29 +0000
Description:
A major page fault occurs when a process attempts to access a page that is
not currently present in RAM; satisfying such faults usually involves I/O , and can thus take some time. When many threads
sharing an address space are generating page faults, the result can be significant lock contention while that I/O takes place. During the memory-management track at the 2026 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit , Barry Song led a session
to try, yet again, to find an enduring solution to this problem.
======================================================================
Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1073071/
--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 (Linux/64)
* Origin: tqwNet UK HUB @ hub.uk.erb.pw (1337:1/100)