linux-kernel - Re: [patch -rss] Make RSS accounting display more user friendly

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Message-ID: <6599ad830706250019h117ff575h156cf112f5778e43@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:19:25 -0700
From:	"Paul Menage" <menage@...gle.com>
To:	"Balbir Singh" <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	"Pavel Emelianov" <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>,
	"Linux Containers" <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch -rss] Make RSS accounting display more user friendly

On 6/22/07, Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> The problem with input in bytes is that the user will have to ensure
> that the input is
> a  multiple of page size, which implies that she would need to use the
> calculator every time.
>

Having input in bytes seems pretty natural to me. Why not just have
the RSS controller round the input to the nearest page (or whatever
granularity of memory the controller is able to limit at)?

Paul
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