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SubjectRe: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation
FromRoland Dreier <>
DateMon, 11 Apr 2005 08:34:19 -0700
    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().

    Troy> The old mellanox drivers used to have a hack to call
    Troy> 'sys_mlock', and promiscuously lock memory any old userspace
    Troy> application asked for. What is the API for the new uverbs
    Troy> memory registration, and how will things like memory hotplug
    Troy> and NUMA page migration be able to unpin pages locked by a
    Troy> user program?

The API for uverbs memory registration is ibv_reg_mr(), and right now
the memory is pinned and that's it.

 - R.
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