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Should FUSE be merged?

Posted Nov 25, 2004 13:32 UTC (Thu) by oneukum (guest, #3970)
Parent article: Should FUSE be merged?

It isn't unreasonable, but it is insufficient.
Almost any syscall can internally allocate memory. Such allocations are
not helped by locking a task into memory.

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Re: locking pages

Posted Nov 27, 2004 1:04 UTC (Sat) by sweikart (guest, #4276) [Link]

> Such allocations are not helped by locking a task into memory.

Au contraire, that's the purpose of mlockall(MCL_FUTURE).

-scott