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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 > > > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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