Re: [patch 05/11] syslets: core code

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > And the whole "lock things down in memory" approach is bad. It's 
> > doing expensive things like mlock(), making the overhead for 
> > _single_ system calls much more expensive. [...]
> 
> hm, there must be some misunderstanding here. That mlock is /only/ 
> once per the lifetime of the whole 'head' - i.e. per 
> sys_async_register(). (And you can even forget i ever did it - it's 5 
> lines of code to turn the completion ring into a swappable entity.)
> 
> never does any MMU trick ever enter the picture during the whole 
> operation of this thing, and that's very much intentional.

to stress it: never does any mlocking or other lockdown happen of any 
syslet atom - it is /only/ the completion ring of syslet pointers that i 
made mlocked - but even that can be made generic memory no problem.

It's all about asynchronous system calls, and if you want you can have a 
terabyte of syslets in user memory, half of it swapped out. They have 
absolutely zero kernel context attached to them in the 'cached case' (be 
that locked memory or some other kernel resource).

	Ingo
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