Re: Memory compaction and mlockall()

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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.




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