On Sat, 25 May 2013, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > If pinned and mlocked are totally difference intentionally, why IB uses > RLIMIT_MEMLOCK. Why don't IB uses IB specific limit and why only IB raise up > number of pinned pages and other gup users don't. > I can't guess IB folk's intent.
True another limit would be better. The reason that IB raises the pinned pages is because IB permanently pins those pages. Other users of gup do that temporarily. If there are other users that pin pages permanently should also account for it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
