On Thu, 20.12.07 14:09, Hugh Dickins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Lennart asked for madvise(WILLNEED) to work on anonymous pages, he plans > > to use this to pre-fault pages. He currently uses: mlock/munlock for > > this purpose. > > I certainly agree with this in principle: it just seems an unnecessary > and surprising restriction to refuse on anonymous vmas; I guess the only > reason for not adding this was not having anyone asking for it until now. > Though, does Lennart realize he could use MAP_POPULATE in the mmap?
Not really. First, if the mmap() is hidden somewhere in glibc (i.e. as part of malloc() or whatever) it's not really possible to do MAP_POPULATE. Also, I need this for some memory that is allocated during the whole runtime but only seldomly used. Thus I am happy if it is swapped out, but everytime I want to use it I want to make sure it is paged in before I pass it on to the RT thread. So, there's a mmap() during startup only, and then, during the whole runtime of my program I want to page in the memory again and again, with long intervals in between, but with no call to mmap()/munmap(). Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- 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/
