Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751009AbVKCIEY (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Nov 2005 03:04:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750953AbVKCIEX (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Nov 2005 03:04:23 -0500 Received: from taurus.voltaire.com ([193.47.165.240]:63776 "EHLO taurus.voltaire.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750817AbVKCIEX (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Nov 2005 03:04:23 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 10:03:41 +0200 From: Gleb Natapov To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Hugh Dickins , Petr Vandrovec , Nick Piggin , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Nick's core remove PageReserved broke vmware... Message-ID: <20051103080341.GB22185@minantech.com> References: <4367C25B.7010300@vc.cvut.cz> <4368097A.1080601@yahoo.com.au> <4368139A.30701@vc.cvut.cz> <1130965454.20136.50.camel@gaston> <1130967936.20136.65.camel@gaston> <1130970131.20136.73.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1130970131.20136.73.camel@gaston> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Nov 2005 08:04:21.0819 (UTC) FILETIME=[32BBA8B0:01C5E04D] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 651 Lines: 15 On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:22:10AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Also, what do you suggest as a good threshold to use on the max amount > of memory I can let the X server "pin" that way ? I was thinking it as > equivalent to mlock, thus I could maybe hijack mm->locked_vm & use > RLIMIT_MEMLOCK or is that too gross ? > This is what infiniband does, so it should be good for you too. -- Gleb. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/