Re: [PATCH] Increase default MLOCK_LIMIT to 8 MiB

David Hildenbrand
2021-11-23T17:04:23Z

On 23.11.21 18:00, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 03:44:03PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> On 23.11.21 15:07, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 02:39:19PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 2) Could be provide a mmu variant to ordinary users that's just good
>>>>>> enough but maybe not as fast as what we have today? And limit
>>>>>> FOLL_LONGTERM to special, privileged users?
>>>>>
>>>>> rdma has never been privileged
>>>>
>>>> Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong: it requires special networking
>>>> hardware and the admin/kernel has to prepare the system in a way such
>>>> that it can be used.
>>>
>>> Not really, plug in the right PCI card and it works
>>
>> Naive me would have assumed that the right modules have to be loaded
>> (and not blacklisted), that there has to be an rdma service installed
>> and running, that the NIC has to be configured in some way, and that
>> there is some kind of access control which user can actually use which
>> NIC.
>
> Not really, we've worked hard that it works as well as any other HW
> device. Plug it in and it works.
>
> There is no systemd service, or special mandatory configuration, for
> instance.
>
>> For example, I would have assume from inside a container it usually
>> wouldn't just work.
>
> Nope, RDMA follows the net namespaces of its ethernet port, so it just
> works in containers too.
>
>> believe what you say and I trust your experience :) So could as well be
>> that on such a "special" (or not so special) systems there should be a
>> way to restrict it to privileged users only.
>
> At this point RDMA is about as "special" as people running large
> ZONE_MOVABLE systems, and the two are going to start colliding
> heavily. The RDMA VFIO migration driver should be merged soon which
> makes VMs using this stuff finally practical.

Sounds like fun. At least we documented it already ;)

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.html#zone-movable-sizing-considerations

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb