On Thu Nov 18, 2021 at 10:58 PM CET, Andrew Morton wrote: > Nobody's aiming for perfection. We're discussing aiming for "better". > > What we should have done on day one was to set the default MLOCK_LIMIT > to zero bytes. Then everyone would have infrastructure to tune it from > userspace and we wouldn't ever have this discussion. Setting aside perfection or not, what you're aiming for is about 1000× more work. I'm not prepared to do that work. I'm not going to paint this same bikeshed 100 times for each Linux distro we have to convince to adopt a more sophisticated solution.
