Re: Fwd: Control page reclaim granularity

[Kautuk Consul]

>
> Hi Kautuk,
>
> IMHO, running application with root privilege is too dangerous.  We
> should avoid it.
>

I agree, but that's not my point.

All I'm saying is that we probably don't want to give normal
unprivileged usermode apps
the capability to set the mapping to AS_UNEVICTABLE as anyone can then
write an application
that hogs memory without allowing the kernel to free it through memory reclaim.
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