Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:12:27 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation |
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* Timur Tabi (timur.tabi@ammasso.com) wrote: > Andy Isaacson wrote: > >Do you guys simply raise RLIMIT_MEMLOCK to allow apps to lock their > >pages? Or are you doing something more nasty? > > A little more nasty. I raise RLIMIT_MEMLOCK in the driver to "unlimited" > and also set cap_raise(IPC_LOCK). I do this because I need to support all > 2.4 and 2.6 kernel versions with the same driver, but only 2.6.10 and later > have any support for non-root mlock().
FYI, that will not work on all 2.6 kernels. Specifically anything that's not using capabilities.
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