From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:45:26 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc1-mm1 Message-Id: <20061010004526.c7088e79.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1160464800.3000.264.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <20061010000928.9d2d519a.akpm@osdl.org> <1160464800.3000.264.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Chen, Kenneth W" , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:20:00 +0200 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 00:09 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > +htlb-forget-rss-with-pt-sharing.patch Which I didn't write. cc's added. > if it's ok to ignore RSS, We'd prefer not to. But what's the alternative? > can we consider the shared pagetables for > normal pages patch? Has been repeatedly considered, but Hugh keeps finding bugs in it. > It saves quite a bit of memory on even desktop > workloads as well as avoiding several (soft) pagefaults. > > So.. what does RSS actually mean? Can we ignore it somewhat for > shared-readonly mappings ? We'd prefer to go the other way, and implement RLIMIT_RSS wouldn't we? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org