On 05/14/2012 10:47 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2012, Minchan Kim wrote: > >> What's the meaning of "locked"? Isn't it pinning? > > No. We agreed to that a long time ago when the page migration logic was > first merged. Mlock only means memory resident. I realized it through Peter's link on opengroup. Hmm, The problem is that it's not consistent with man pages which says "no fault happen". So many developers have been used it by meaning of "making sure latency". :( > > Hugh pushed for it initially. > > -- > To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in > the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, > see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . > Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ > Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a> > -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>