Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964783AbWCTNlX (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:41:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964790AbWCTNlW (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:41:22 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:11432 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964783AbWCTNlV (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:41:21 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH][0/8] (Targeting 2.6.17) Posix memory locking and balanced mlock-LRU semantic From: Arjan van de Ven To: Stone Wang Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org 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 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 746 Lines: 17 > 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 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/