Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation

Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-18T20:05:51Z

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 15:00 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> > you should since that physical page can be reused, say by a root
> > process, and you'd be majorly screwed
>
> I don't understand what you mean by "reused". The whole point behind pinning the memory
> is that it stays where it is. It doesn't get moved around and it doesn't get swapped out.
>
you just said that you didn't care that it got munlock'd. So you don't
care that it gets freed either. And then reused.