Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Nov 2021 10:07:09 -0400 | From | Jason Gunthorpe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Increase default MLOCK_LIMIT to 8 MiB |
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On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 02:39:19PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: > > > >> 2) Could be provide a mmu variant to ordinary users that's just good > >> enough but maybe not as fast as what we have today? And limit > >> FOLL_LONGTERM to special, privileged users? > > > > rdma has never been privileged > > Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong: it requires special networking > hardware and the admin/kernel has to prepare the system in a way such > that it can be used.
Not really, plug in the right PCI card and it works
"special" is a bit of a reach since almost every NIC sold in the > 100GB segment supports some RDMA.
Jason
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