On Thu 30-11-17 12:01:17, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 10:32:42AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > > > Who and how many LRU pages can pin that way and how do you prevent nasty > > > users to DoS systems this way? > > > > I assume this is something the RDMA community has had to contend with? > > I'm not an RDMA person, I'm just here to fix dax. > > The RDMA implementation respects the mlock rlimit OK, so then I am kind of lost in why do we need a special g-u-p variant. The documentation doesn't say and quite contrary it assumes that the caller knows what he is doing. This cannot be the right approach. In other words, what does V4L2 does in the same context? Does it account the pinned memory or it allows user to pin arbitrary amount of memory. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs