Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:09:35 -0500 | From | Timur Tabi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation |
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Roland Dreier wrote: > Troy> How is memory pinning handled? (I haven't had time to read > Troy> all the code, so please excuse my ignorance of something > Troy> obvious). > > The userspace library calls mlock() and then the kernel does > get_user_pages().
Why do you call mlock() and get_user_pages()? In our code, we only call mlock(), and the memory is pinned. We have a test case that fails if only get_user_pages() is called, but it passes if only mlock() is called.
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