From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E57CC6B0055 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 06:11:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from m2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp ([10.0.50.72]) by fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp (Fujitsu Gateway) with ESMTP id n96AB84v024241 for (envelope-from kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 19:11:08 +0900 Received: from smail (m2 [127.0.0.1]) by outgoing.m2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33CCA45DE4E for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 19:11:08 +0900 (JST) Received: from s2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (s2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp [10.0.50.92]) by m2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F10845DE5D for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 19:11:08 +0900 (JST) Received: from s2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by s2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDA321DB8050 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 19:11:07 +0900 (JST) Received: from m107.s.css.fujitsu.com (m107.s.css.fujitsu.com [10.249.87.107]) by s2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16C271DB803F for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 19:11:07 +0900 (JST) From: KOSAKI Motohiro Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] add MAP_UNLOCKED mmap flag In-Reply-To: <20091006095111.GG9832@redhat.com> References: <20091006095111.GG9832@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20091006190938.126F.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 19:11:06 +0900 (JST) Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Gleb Natapov Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi > If application does mlockall(MCL_FUTURE) it is no longer possible to > mmap file bigger than main memory or allocate big area of anonymous > memory. Sometimes it is desirable to lock everything related to program > execution into memory, but still be able to mmap big file or allocate > huge amount of memory and allow OS to swap them on demand. MAP_UNLOCKED > allows to do that. > > Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov Why don't you use explicit munlock()? Plus, Can you please elabrate which workload nedd this feature? -- 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