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

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Message-ID: <4681090A.6030805@sw.ru>
Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:39:38 +0400
From:	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru>
To:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
CC:	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [patch -rss] Make RSS accounting display more user friendly

Paul Menage wrote:
> 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)?

totally agree with Paul.

Kirill

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