> I don't think it's a problem for high priority (RT) tasks - it's well > known in the real time Linux community that you never, ever do IO from > a thread that has to satisfy RT constraints.
The point here is to protect the system from a potentially malicious user > which I would > expect to take fewer locks. Even a single lock is one too much. My example lock -- the page lock bit -- certainly applies to both reads and writes. -Andi - 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/
