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Looking up a virtual memory area (VMA) in a process’s address space, for
the handling of page faults or any of a number of other tasks, in
multi-threaded processes has long been bedeviled by lock contention in the
kernel. As a result, developer gatherings have been subjected to many
sessions on how to improve the situation. At the 2024 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit, developers in the
memory-management track met, in a session led by Liam Howlett, to talk
about a situation that has improved considerably in recent times, but which
still offers opportunities for optimization.