Rusty Russell af2613e16f ctdb: use mlockall, cautiously ...

We don't want ctdb stalling due to paging; this can be far worse than
scheduling delays.  But if we simply do mlockall(MCL_FUTURE), it
increases the risk that mmap (ie. tdb open) or malloc will fail,
causing us to abort.

This patch is a compromise: we mlock all current pages (including
10k of future stack for expansion) and then relock when a client
asks us to open a TDB.  We warn, but don't exit, if it fails.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>


(This used to be ctdb commit 82f778e85440bc713d3f87c08ddc955d3cfce926)

2009-12-16 20:57:20 +10:30

ctdb

ctdb: use mlockall, cautiously

2009-12-16 20:57:20 +10:30

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