* Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@buzzard.freeserve.co.uk> [020416 15:04] wrote:
> 
> So, how hard would it be to add a syscall that would only lock a page into 
> memory if it were really needed?  That is, we start with an empty set of 
> locked pages, then as a page is referenced it is loaded and locked in 
> place (so that it won't be swapped out again later).  This way, pages that 
> aren't referenced will never be locked, and pages that are will only pay 
> the fetch cost once (on first reference).  For something like ntp this 
> would surely be perfectly adequate.

I think you could achieve the same thing using mprotect(2) and
smarts in your signal handler to then mlock(2) the memory you
fault on.

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