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Subject: RE: Bug 71331 - mlock yields processor to lower priority process
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On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 14:01 +0000, jimmie.davis@l-3com.com wrote:

> If you call mlock () from a SCHED_FIFO task, you expect it to return
> when done.  You don't expect it to block, and your task to be
> pre-empted.

Say some of your pages are sitting in an nfs swapfile orbiting Neptune,
how do they get home, and what should we do meanwhile?

-Mike
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