Re: [PATCH] Increase default MLOCK_LIMIT to 8 MiB

David Hildenbrand
2021-11-23T14:44:11Z

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. For example, I would have assume from inside a container it usually
wouldn't just work.

But I am absolutely not a networking and RDMA expert, so I have to
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.

>
> "special" is a bit of a reach since almost every NIC sold in the > 100GB
> segment supports some RDMA.

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb