From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:40:39 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: deferred rss update instead of sloppy rss In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Hugh Dickins , akpm@osdl.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Nick Piggin , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > I think the approach that I posted is simpler unless there are other > benefits to be gained if it would be easy to figure out which tasks use an > mm. I'm just worried that your timer tick thing won't catch things in a timely manner. That said, if that isn't an issue, and people don't have problems with it. On the other hand, if /proc literally is the only real user, then I guess it really can't matter. Linus -- 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: aart@kvack.org