From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:39:19 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: deferred rss update instead of sloppy rss In-Reply-To: <41A26910.7090401@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: References: <41A26910.7090401@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Linus Torvalds , Hugh Dickins , akpm@osdl.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Nick Piggin wrote: > Deferred rss might be a practical solution, but I'd prefer this if it can > be made workable. Both results in an additional field in task_struct that is going to be incremented when the page_table_lock is not held. It would be possible to switch to looping in procfs later. The main question with this patchset is: How and when can we get this get into the kernel? -- 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