Author: alc
Date: Wed Jul 20 17:20:22 2016
New Revision: 303101
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/303101

Log:
  Add a comment describing the 'fast path' that was introduced in r270011.
  
  Reviewed by:  kib
  MFC after:    3 days
  Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division

Modified:
  head/sys/vm/vm_fault.c

Modified: head/sys/vm/vm_fault.c
==============================================================================
--- head/sys/vm/vm_fault.c      Wed Jul 20 17:19:47 2016        (r303100)
+++ head/sys/vm/vm_fault.c      Wed Jul 20 17:20:22 2016        (r303101)
@@ -354,6 +354,15 @@ RetryFault:;
                KASSERT((fault_flags & VM_FAULT_WIRE) == 0,
                    ("!wired && VM_FAULT_WIRE"));
 
+       /*
+        * Try to avoid lock contention on the top-level object through
+        * special-case handling of some types of page faults, specifically,
+        * those that are both (1) mapping an existing page from the top-
+        * level object and (2) not having to mark that object as containing
+        * dirty pages.  Under these conditions, a read lock on the top-level
+        * object suffices, allowing multiple page faults of a similar type to
+        * run in parallel on the same top-level object.
+        */
        if (fs.vp == NULL /* avoid locked vnode leak */ &&
            (fault_flags & (VM_FAULT_WIRE | VM_FAULT_DIRTY)) == 0 &&
            /* avoid calling vm_object_set_writeable_dirty() */
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