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Yeah but you can pin important pages in RAM with mlock family of syscalls and friends like move_pages for explicit page management. This is what materialize do

by jitl 1y ago

Yeah but you can pin important pages in RAM with mlock family of syscalls and friends like move_pages for explicit page management. This is what materialize does as far as I understand it.

rockwotj 1y ago
That seems to be contradictory, as they talk about using it to spill to disk in a simpler way. You can’t swap with mlock?
- rockwotj 1y ago
  Also move_pages is about numa nodes not spilling to swap