2006/3/21, Nick Piggin <[email protected]>:
> Stone Wang wrote:
> > Both one of my friends(who is working on a DBMS oriented from
> > PostgreSQL) and i had encountered unexpected OOMs with mlock/mlockall.
> >
>
> I'm not sure this is a great idea. There are more conditions than just
> mlock that prevent pages being reclaimed. Running out of swap, for
> example, no swap, page temporarily pinned (in other words -- any duration
> from fleeting to permanent). I think something _much_ simpler could be
> done for a more general approach just to teach the VM to tolerate these
> pages a bit better.
>
> Also, supposing we do want this, I think there is a fairly significant
> queue of mm stuff you need to line up behind... it is probably asking
> too much to target 2.6.17 for such a significant change in any case.
>
> But despite all that I looked though and have a few comments ;)
> Kudos for jumping in and getting your hands dirty! It can be tricky code.
>
> > The patch brings Linux with:
> > 1. Posix mlock/munlock/mlockall/munlockall.
> > Get mlock/munlock/mlockall/munlockall to Posix definiton: transaction-like,
> > just as described in the manpage(2) of mlock/munlock/mlockall/munlockall.
> > Thus users of mlock system call series will always have an clear map of
> > mlocked areas.
>
> In what way are we not now posix compliant now?
Currently, Linux's mlock for example, may fail with only part of its
task finished.
While accroding to POSIX definition:
man mlock(2)
"
RETURN VALUE
On success, mlock returns zero. On error, -1 is returned, errno is set
appropriately, and no changes are made to any locks in the address
space of the process.
"
Shaoping Wang
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