** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Eoan)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Focal)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  The thread level parallelism would be a bottleneck when searching for
  the shared pmd by using hugetlbfs

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in linux source package in Bionic:
  New
Status in linux source package in Eoan:
  New
Status in linux source package in Focal:
  New

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  There is performance overhead observed when many threads
  are using hugetlbfs in the database environment.

  [Fix]

  bdfbd98bc018 hugetlbfs: take read_lock on i_mmap for PMD sharing

  The patch improves the locking by using the read lock instead of the
  write lock. And it allows multiple threads searching the suitable shared
  VMA. As there is no modification inside the searching process. The 
  improvement increases the parallelism and decreases the waiting time of
  the other threads.

  [Test]

  The customer stand-up a database with seed data. Then they have a
  loading "driver" which makes a bunch of connections that look like user
  workflows from the database perspective. Finally, the measuring response
  times improvement can be observed for these "users" as well as various
  other metrics at the database level.

  [Regression Potential]

  The modification is only in replacing the write lock to a read one. And 
  there is no modification inside the loop. The regression probability is
  low.

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