[openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation

Arjan van de Ven arjan at infradead.org
Mon Apr 18 13:05:42 PDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 15:00 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > you should since that physical page can be reused, say by a root
> > process, and you'd be majorly screwed
> 
> I don't understand what you mean by "reused".  The whole point behind pinning the memory 
> is that it stays where it is.  It doesn't get moved around and it doesn't get swapped out.
> 
you just said that you didn't care that it got munlock'd. So you don't
care that it gets freed either. And then reused.





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