Mlocked pages are movable. Posix states that mlock means that the pages cannot be evicted. And the VM people agreed to work with that strict definition. Moving a page does not evict the page from memory. We therefore follow posix prescribed behavior. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-numa" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html