On 7/10/19 9:45 AM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > It says "lock virtual address space into into RAM". I assumed that there > will be no page faults because everything is locked. > > The problem (besides the delay caused by the context switch and fix up) > is that a major fault (with might have happened at the same time in > another thread) will block this minor fault even longer. Yeah, I totally agree this behavior can be problematic and counterintuitive. Making it better would be nice. I just wanted to point out that it's probably not strictly required, though.