From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <48213A66.5030502@bull.net> Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 07:13:10 +0200 From: Nadia Derbey MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] Scaling msgmni to the amount of lowmem References: <20080211141646.948191000@bull.net> <20080211141813.354484000@bull.net> <12c511ca0804291328v2f0b87csd0f2cf3accc6ad00@mail.gmail.com> <481EC917.6070808@bull.net> <1FE6DD409037234FAB833C420AA843EC014392F9@orsmsx424.amr.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1FE6DD409037234FAB833C420AA843EC014392F9@orsmsx424.amr.corp.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Luck, Tony" Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, cmm@us.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org List-ID: Luck, Tony wrote: >>Well, this printk had been suggested by somebody (sorry I don't remember >>who) when I first submitted the patch. Actually I think it might be >>useful for a sysadmin to be aware of a change in the msgmni value: we >>have the message not only at boot time, but also each time msgmni is >>recomputed because of a change in the amount of memory. > > > If the message is directed at the system administrator, then it would > be nice if there were some more meaningful way to show the namespace > that is affected than just printing the hex address of the kernel structure. > > As the sysadmin for my test systems, printing the hex address is mildly > annoying ... I now have to add a new case to my scripts that look at > dmesg output for unusual activity. > > Is there some better "name for a namespace" than the address? Perhaps > the process id of the process that instantiated the namespace??? > Unfortunately no when we are inside an ipc namespace, we don't have such interesting informations. But I agree with you, an address is not readable enough. I'll try to find a solution. Regards, Nadia -- 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