From: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux MM Mailing List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [-mm PATCH] Memory controller improve user interface
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:43:15 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46D68A2B.7040106@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070830143859.e9d3511a.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:07:11 +0530
> Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> 1. Several people recommended it
>> 2. Herbert mentioned that they've moved to that interface and it
>> was working fine for them.
>>
>
> I have no strong opinion. But how about Mega bytes ? (too big ?)
> There will be no rounding up/down problem.
>
Here is what I am thinking, allow the user to input bytes/kilobytes/
megabytes or gigabytes. Store the data internally in kilobytes or
PFN. I prefer kilobytes (no rounding issues), but while implementing
limits we round up to the closest PFN.
--
Warm Regards,
Balbir Singh
Linux Technology Center
IBM, ISTL
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-30 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-29 11:10 Balbir Singh
2007-08-29 15:28 ` Paul Menage
2007-08-29 16:07 ` Balbir Singh
2007-08-29 16:17 ` Paul Menage
2007-08-29 18:45 ` Dave Hansen
2007-08-29 22:04 ` Balbir Singh
2007-08-29 22:18 ` Dave Hansen
2007-08-29 22:20 ` Paul Menage
2007-08-29 22:25 ` Dave Hansen
2007-08-29 22:37 ` Balbir Singh
2007-08-30 5:38 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-08-30 9:13 ` Balbir Singh [this message]
2007-08-29 22:27 ` Balbir Singh
2007-08-29 22:36 ` Dave Hansen
2007-08-29 22:44 ` Balbir Singh
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