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Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 15:32:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
skumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, yamamoto@...inux.co.jp,
menage@...gle.com, lizf@...fujitsu.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xemul@...nvz.org,
kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [-mm][PATCH 3/4] Add rlimit controller accounting and control
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> IOW, have we chosen the best, most maintainable representation for these
> things?
>
There was discussion early on in the development of the memory controller
that bytes were going to be used as the base unit for accounting. I had
disagreed in favor of kB since page sizes are always in these increments
and historically the kernel has exported statistics this way via
/proc/meminfo.
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