Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:56:09 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation |
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Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > > > 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!!
eh? I guess the kernel _is_ free to move the page about, but it doesn't.
We might do at some time in the future for memory hotplug, I guess. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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