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SubjectRe: Nick's core remove PageReserved broke vmware...
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:22:10AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Also, what do you suggest as a good threshold to use on the max amount
> > of memory I can let the X server "pin" that way ? I was thinking it as
> > equivalent to mlock, thus I could maybe hijack mm->locked_vm & use
> > RLIMIT_MEMLOCK or is that too gross ?
> >
> This is what infiniband does, so it should be good for you too.

Yes, I noticed that code a couple of days ago, I think you're setting a
good example there, for long-term or large-area uses of get_user_pages():
Ben, take a look at drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_mem.c

Hugh
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