linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] Add /proc/<pid>/numa

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Date:   Thu, 3 May 2018 15:26:53 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     prakash.sangappa@...cle.com,
        Anshuman Khandual <khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, mhocko@...e.com,
        kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com,
        drepper@...il.com, rientjes@...gle.com,
        Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Add /proc/<pid>/numa_vamaps for numa node information

On 05/03/2018 03:27 PM, prakash.sangappa wrote:
>>
> If each consecutive page comes from different node, yes in
> the extreme case is this file will have a lot of lines. All the lines
> are generated at the time file is read. The amount of data read will be
> limited to the user read buffer size used in the read.
> 
> /proc/<pid>/pagemap also has kind of  similar issue. There is 1 64
> bit value for each user page.
But nobody reads it sequentially.  Everybody lseek()s because it has a
fixed block size.  You can't do that in text.