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

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Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:54:00 -0400
From:	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru>
CC:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch -rss] Make RSS accounting display more user friendly

Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> 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
> 
Kirill

If someone assigns a rss_limit of 1 byte and sees a usage of 1 page,
won't that be confusing. But having said that it's not a big
change, it should be easy to accommodate.

-- 
	Warm Regards,
	Balbir Singh
	Linux Technology Center
	IBM, ISTL
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