Subject: Re: freezing the scsi bus
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/12/1999 15:22:20
>> I could do this via two ioctls (to freeze and unfreeze), except for
>> the risk that the process will have to page something in off disk in
>> order to unfreeeze the bus.

> I suspect if you mlock the pages in this won't be a problem in
> practice.

Sure.  Except:

(1) How do I find all the address ranges I need to lock?

(2) That assumes no other processes need locking, which is false if
    running under X or screen or any such.

					der Mouse

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