From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [PATCH][0/8] (Targeting 2.6.17) Posix memory locking and balanced mlock-LRU semantic From: Arjan van de Ven In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:41:18 +0100 Message-Id: <1142862078.3114.47.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Stone Wang Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > 1. Posix mlock/munlock/mlockall/munlockall. > Get mlock/munlock/mlockall/munlockall to Posix definiton: transaction-like, > just as described in the manpage(2) of mlock/munlock/mlockall/munlockall. > Thus users of mlock system call series will always have an clear map of > mlocked areas. > 2. More consistent LRU semantics in Memory Management. > Mlocked pages is placed on a separate LRU list: Wired List. please give this a more logical name, such as mlocked list or pinned list -- 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