On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Martin Drab wrote: > 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?
Well, so I tried it. Truth is that the "Bad page" messages upon munmap(2) are gone. But whether the pages are really prevented from being swapped out? I don't know. I don't know how to find out. 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/