On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 07:11:06PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > 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 <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Why don't you use explicit munlock()? Because mmap will fail before I'll have a chance to run munlock on it. Actually when I run my process inside memory limited container host dies (I suppose trashing, but haven't checked). > Plus, Can you please elabrate which workload nedd this feature? > I wanted to run kvm with qemu process locked in memory, but guest memory unlocked. And guest memory is bigger then host memory in the case I am testing. I found out that it is impossible currently. -- Gleb. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
