linux-kernel - RE: Bug 71331 - mlock yields processor to lower priority process

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Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2014 15:41:44 +0100
From:	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>
To:	jimmie.davis@...com.com
Cc:	oneukum@...e.de, artem_fetishev@...m.com, peterz@...radead.org,
	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: RE: Bug 71331 - mlock yields processor to lower priority process

On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 14:01 +0000, jimmie.davis@...com.com wrote:

> If you call mlock () from a SCHED_FIFO task, you expect it to return
> when done.  You don't expect it to block, and your task to be
> pre-empted.

Say some of your pages are sitting in an nfs swapfile orbiting Neptune,
how do they get home, and what should we do meanwhile?

-Mike
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