From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>
Cc: rolandd@cisco.com, gregkh@suse.de, akpm@osdl.org,
davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
openib-general@openib.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10 of 20] ipath - support for userspace apps using core driver
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:32:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adawtf3cf69.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141949262.10693.69.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> (Bryan O'Sullivan's message of "Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:07:42 -0800")
Bryan> We're mapping some memory that the chip DMAs to into
Bryan> userspace, so that user processes can spin on memory
Bryan> locations without going through the kernel. The
Bryan> SetPageReserved hack is an attempt to stop the VM from
Bryan> reclaiming those pages from us once a user process exits.
Bryan> I realise that it's surely bogus, and I'd be thrilled to do
Bryan> something correct instead. We've tried doing both
Bryan> SetPageReserved and get_page, but it hasn't work out too
Bryan> well so far.
What's wrong with doing get_page()? Surely the VM won't take pages
that you hold a reference to.
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-10 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-03-09 23:28 ` [PATCH 10 of 20] ipath - support for userspace apps using core driver Roland Dreier
2006-03-09 23:55 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10 0:01 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-10 0:07 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10 0:32 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2006-03-10 0:36 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10 0:37 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-10 0:50 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 0:56 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 1:51 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-16 2:11 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 2:37 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-16 2:52 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 2:56 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 3:28 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-16 4:58 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 5:38 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-16 5:54 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-16 6:17 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-16 6:44 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-16 9:39 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-16 10:00 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-16 7:25 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-16 16:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-16 14:57 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-16 6:31 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-16 14:34 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-17 0:37 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-17 1:09 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-17 15:27 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-17 22:21 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-17 16:11 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-17 16:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-17 16:40 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-17 22:28 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-17 22:14 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-16 15:12 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-16 17:46 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-16 17:53 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 14:24 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-16 15:33 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 17:23 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-16 17:40 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 19:52 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 20:10 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-16 20:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-16 20:43 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-21 20:52 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-21 23:20 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-22 15:58 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-22 16:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-22 16:43 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-22 17:46 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-22 17:53 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 23:37 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-16 23:51 ` Remapping pages mapped to userspace (was: [PATCH 10 of 20] ipath - support for userspace apps using core driver) Roland Dreier
2006-03-16 23:56 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-17 1:10 ` Remapping pages mapped to userspace Roland Dreier
2006-03-17 1:12 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-17 1:28 ` Alan Cox
2006-03-17 2:16 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-17 17:13 ` Remapping pages mapped to userspace (was: [PATCH 10 of 20] ipath - support for userspace apps using core driver) Hugh Dickins
2006-03-17 17:17 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-17 17:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-17 18:20 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-17 22:58 ` Remapping pages mapped to userspace Roland Dreier
2006-03-16 15:08 ` [PATCH 10 of 20] ipath - support for userspace apps using core driver Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 17:27 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-16 17:44 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 16:52 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 3:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-16 4:53 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-16 2:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-09 23:33 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-09 23:56 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10 0:35 [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath driver - another round for review Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10 0:35 ` [PATCH 10 of 20] ipath - support for userspace apps using core driver Bryan O'Sullivan
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