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From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.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 16:07:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1141949262.10693.69.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ada1wxbdv7a.fsf@cisco.com>

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 16:01 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Bryan> Any idea what I should be using instead?
> 
> It depends what you're trying to do.  Hence my original question: why
> are you doing SetPageReserved?

We're mapping some memory that the chip DMAs to into userspace, so that
user processes can spin on memory locations without going through the
kernel.  The SetPageReserved hack is an attempt to stop the VM from
reclaiming those pages from us once a user process exits.

I realise that it's surely bogus, and I'd be thrilled to do something
correct instead.  We've tried doing both SetPageReserved and get_page,
but it hasn't work out too well so far.

	<b


  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-10  0:07 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 [this message]
2006-03-10  0:32         ` Roland Dreier
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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