From: Timur Tabi <timur.tabi@ammasso.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>,
Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 12:55:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42693A8A.80105@ammasso.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1113840973.6274.84.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 11:09 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
>
>>Roland Dreier wrote:
>>
>>> Troy> How is memory pinning handled? (I haven't had time to read
>>> Troy> all the code, so please excuse my ignorance of something
>>> Troy> obvious).
>>>
>>>The userspace library calls mlock() and then the kernel does
>>>get_user_pages().
>>
>>Why do you call mlock() and get_user_pages()? In our code, we only call mlock(), and the
>>memory is pinned.
>
>
> this is a myth; linux is free to move the page about in physical memory
> even if it's mlock()ed!!
Can you tell me when Linux actually does this? I know in theory it can happen, but I've
never seen it. Does the code to implement moving of data from one physical page to
another even exist in any version of Linux?
Also, what would be the point? What reason would there be to move some data from one
physical page to another, while keeping the same virtual address?
--
Timur Tabi
Staff Software Engineer
timur.tabi@ammasso.com
One thing a Southern boy will never say is,
"I don't think duct tape will fix it."
-- Ed Smylie, NASA engineer for Apollo 13
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-22 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 143+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-04 22:09 [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation Roland Dreier
2005-04-04 22:09 ` [PATCH][RFC][1/4] IB: core changes for userspace verbs Roland Dreier
2005-04-04 22:09 ` [PATCH][RFC][2/4] IB: userspace verbs main module Roland Dreier
2005-04-04 22:09 ` [PATCH][RFC][3/4] IB: userspace verbs mthca changes Roland Dreier
2005-04-04 22:09 ` [PATCH][RFC][4/4] IB: userspace verbs Kconfig/Makefile changes Roland Dreier
2005-04-04 22:49 ` [openib-general] [PATCH][RFC][3/4] IB: userspace verbs mthca changes Tom Duffy
2005-04-04 23:34 ` Roland Dreier
2005-04-21 0:37 ` [PATCH][MTHCA] fix sparc build WAS: " Tom Duffy
2005-04-21 0:38 ` David S. Miller
2005-04-11 14:22 ` [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation Troy Benjegerdes
2005-04-11 15:34 ` Roland Dreier
2005-04-11 16:33 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2005-04-11 16:56 ` Roland Dreier
2005-04-11 18:01 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2005-04-11 18:03 ` Roland Dreier
2005-04-12 0:13 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-12 0:21 ` Roland Dreier
2005-04-12 18:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-04-13 18:28 ` Roland Dreier
2005-04-13 19:32 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-13 1:04 ` [openib-general] " Libor Michalek
2005-04-18 17:15 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-26 3:31 ` Libor Michalek
2005-05-04 18:27 ` Timur Tabi
2005-05-05 18:48 ` Timur Tabi
2005-05-06 23:08 ` Timur Tabi
2005-05-07 13:18 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-05-07 14:45 ` Timur Tabi
2005-05-07 16:30 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-05-11 20:12 ` William Jordan
2005-05-11 20:42 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-05-11 22:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-05-11 22:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-05-11 22:53 ` Timur Tabi
2005-05-11 23:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-05-05 23:34 ` Libor Michalek
2005-04-18 16:22 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-18 16:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-18 16:45 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-24 2:44 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-24 14:23 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-24 20:53 ` Greg KH
2005-04-24 21:52 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-25 1:03 ` Greg KH
2005-04-25 4:12 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-25 13:30 ` Dave Hansen
2005-04-25 13:15 ` Roland Dreier
2005-04-25 13:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-25 14:16 ` Roland Dreier
2005-04-25 20:54 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-25 21:12 ` Roland Dreier
2005-04-25 22:14 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-25 22:21 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-25 22:32 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-25 23:58 ` Roland Dreier
2005-04-26 0:11 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-26 0:23 ` Roland Dreier
2005-04-26 0:37 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-26 2:21 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-26 3:16 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-26 3:38 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-26 4:33 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-26 14:07 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-26 15:31 ` Roland Dreier
2005-04-26 15:42 ` [openib-general] " Libor Michalek
2005-04-26 15:49 ` Roland Dreier
2005-04-26 19:28 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-26 20:14 ` Roland Dreier
2005-04-26 20:18 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-26 20:37 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-29 14:26 ` Bill Jordan
2005-04-29 15:56 ` Caitlin Bestler
2005-04-29 16:45 ` RDMA memory registration (was: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation) Roland Dreier
2005-04-29 17:23 ` Libor Michalek
2005-04-29 18:22 ` RDMA memory registration Brice Goglin
2005-04-29 18:31 ` Roland Dreier
2005-04-29 19:33 ` [openib-general] " Grant Grundler
2005-05-03 8:42 ` David Addison
2005-05-03 15:36 ` Grant Grundler
2005-04-29 19:43 ` RDMA memory registration (was: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation) Bill Jordan
2005-04-29 19:45 ` RDMA memory registration Roland Dreier
2005-04-29 17:04 ` [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation Libor Michalek
2005-04-30 0:31 ` Caitlin Bestler
2005-05-03 18:43 ` Andy Isaacson
2005-05-03 19:04 ` Caitlin Bestler
2005-05-04 18:22 ` William Jordan
2005-05-05 1:27 ` Rik van Riel
2005-05-05 1:57 ` Andy Isaacson
2005-04-26 20:32 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-26 21:23 ` Roland Dreier
2005-04-27 0:05 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-27 2:13 ` Roland Dreier
2005-04-27 3:21 ` Caitlin Bestler
2005-04-27 3:15 ` Caitlin Bestler
2005-04-26 2:03 ` IWAMOTO Toshihiro
2005-04-26 2:16 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-26 2:26 ` [openib-general] " Stephen Langdon
2005-04-25 22:23 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-25 22:35 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-25 22:42 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-25 23:13 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-25 23:21 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-25 23:27 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-26 0:08 ` Roland Dreier
2005-04-25 22:51 ` [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbsimplementation Bob Woodruff
2005-04-25 23:13 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-25 23:17 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-25 23:29 ` Bob Woodruff
2005-04-25 23:17 ` [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation Libor Michalek
2005-04-25 23:24 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-25 23:37 ` Caitlin Bestler
2005-04-26 0:10 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-26 3:55 ` Libor Michalek
2005-04-26 0:02 ` Roland Dreier
2005-04-26 6:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-26 13:45 ` [openib-general] " Caitlin Bestler
2005-04-26 15:24 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-25 19:11 ` Andy Isaacson
2005-04-18 16:09 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-18 16:12 ` Roland Dreier
2005-04-18 16:50 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-21 19:47 ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-18 16:16 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-18 16:25 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-18 19:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-18 20:00 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-18 20:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-18 20:19 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-18 20:07 ` [openib-general] " Bernhard Fischer
2005-04-21 2:17 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2005-04-21 3:07 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-21 17:38 ` Andy Isaacson
2005-04-21 18:39 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-21 19:56 ` Andy Isaacson
2005-04-21 20:07 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-21 20:12 ` Chris Wright
2005-04-21 20:14 ` Timur Tabi
2005-04-21 20:25 ` Chris Wright
2005-04-21 20:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-22 6:14 ` Greg KH
2005-04-22 17:55 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2005-04-22 18:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-29 0:56 ` Andrew Morton
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