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

Timur Tabi
2005-04-18T20:20:23Z

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> 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.

Well, I can live with the app being able to call munlock(), because the apps that our
customers use don't call munlock(). What I can't live with is a bug in the kernel that
causes pinned pages to be swapped or moved.

Obviously, I would rather call get_user_pages() instead of mlock(), but I can't, because
get_user_pages doesn't work. The page doesn't stay pinned at the physical address, but it
does if I call mlock() and get_user_pages().

Actually, in our tests, calling mlock() appears to be good enough, but I'll update our
code to call get_user_pages() as well.

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Timur Tabi
Staff Software Engineer
timur.tabi@ammasso.com