Linux Page Faults, MMAP, and userfaultfd for faster VM boots
56 points by shayonj
by anlsh
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Oh neat, a post I actually know something about! I worked a lot on userfaultfd performance for GCE's live migration post-copy a couple years ago. Or more specifically, I worked on mechanisms to avoid it entirely- due to lock contention in the kennel, faults become veeeerry slow as the number of vcpus scales, and as it happens VMs these days can have a lot of vcpus
by dataflow
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> Userfaultfd is a Linux mechanism, available since kernel 4.3, with additional event features like non-cooperative mode and fork/remap/remove tracking added in 4.11, that lets a userspace thread intercept and handle page faults.
Is this the same feature Windows has had forever, or is there more to it?
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