On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Martin Drab wrote: > On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Carsten Otte wrote: > > > On 3/8/07, Martin Drab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > The thing is that I'd like to prevent kernel to swap these pages out, > > > because then I may loose some data when they are not available in time > > > for the next round. > > > > One think you could do is grab a reference to the pages upfront. > > I'm not really sure what exactly do you mean by "grab a reference > upfront"?
I seem to get it now. So instead of setting PG_reserved upon allocation of the buffer pages, I should increase the referrence of the pages by calling get_page() on them and that would prevent the pages to get on the lru list and thus preventing them to be swapped out. Is that it? Martin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
