[ofa-general] Re: [patch 01/10] emm: mm_lock: Lock a process against reclaim

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 12:02:53PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> It's per-mm though.  How many processes would need to have notifiers?

There can be up to hundreds of VM in a single system. Not sure to
understand the point of the question though.

> Well, its definitely going to need more comments then.  I assumed it would 
> end up locking everything, so unlocking everything would be sufficient.

After your comments, I'm writing an alternate version that will
guarantee a O(N) worst case to both sigkill and cond_resched but
frankly this is low priority. Without mmu notifiers /dev/kvm can't be
given to a normal luser without at least losing mlock ulimits, so lack
of a mmu notifiers is a bigger issue than whatever complexity in
mm_lock as far as /dev/kvm ownership is concerned.