* Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2013, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Let's try to get this wrapped up?
> >
> > On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 14:43:51 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Patch bc3e53f682 ("mm: distinguish between mlocked and pinned pages")
> > > broke RLIMIT_MEMLOCK.
> >
> > I rather like what bc3e53f682 did, actually. RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limits the
> > amount of memory you can mlock(). Nice and simple.
> >
> > This pinning thing which infiniband/perf are doing is conceptually
> > different and if we care at all, perhaps we should be looking at adding
> > RLIMIT_PINNED.
>
> Actually PINNED is just a stronger version of MEMLOCK. PINNED and
> MEMLOCK are both preventing the page from being paged out. PINNED adds
> the constraint of preventing minor faults as well.
>
> So I think the really important tuning knob is the limitation of pages
> which cannot be paged out. And this is what RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is about.
>
> Now if you want to add RLIMIT_PINNED as well, then it only limits the
> number of pages which cannot create minor faults, but that does not
> affect the limitation of total pages which cannot be paged out.
Agreed.
( Furthermore, the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK semantics change actively broke code so
this is not academic and it would be nice to progress with it. )
Thanks,
Ingo
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