From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx140.postini.com [74.125.245.140]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5894C6B003C for ; Tue, 28 May 2013 12:19:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 16:19:25 +0000 From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: Fix RLIMIT_MEMLOCK In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <0000013eebefddd4-ace0f251-cfba-41cf-b48e-266cb13bcebd-000000@email.amazonses.com> References: <20130523044803.GA25399@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20130523104154.GA23650@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <0000013ed1b8d0cc-ad2bb878-51bd-430c-8159-629b23ed1b44-000000@email.amazonses.com> <20130523152458.GD23650@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <0000013ed2297ba8-467d474a-7068-45b3-9fa3-82641e6aa363-000000@email.amazonses.com> <20130523163901.GG23650@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <0000013ed28b638a-066d7dc7-b590-49f8-9423-badb9537b8b6-000000@email.amazonses.com> <20130524140114.GK23650@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <0000013ed732b615-748f574f-ccb8-4de7-bbe4-d85d1cbf0c9d-000000@email.amazonses.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Al Viro , Vince Weaver , LKML , Paul Mackerras , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , trinity@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Roland Dreier , infinipath@qlogic.com, "linux-mm@kvack.org" , linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, Or Gerlitz 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, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org