From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 15:32:58 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [-mm][PATCH 3/4] Add rlimit controller accounting and control In-Reply-To: <20080505152451.6dceec74.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20080503213726.3140.68845.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20080503213814.3140.66080.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20080505152451.6dceec74.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Balbir Singh , linux-mm@kvack.org, skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, yamamoto@valinux.co.jp, menage@google.com, lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xemul@openvz.org, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com List-ID: On Mon, 5 May 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > IOW, have we chosen the best, most maintainable representation for these > things? > There was discussion early on in the development of the memory controller that bytes were going to be used as the base unit for accounting. I had disagreed in favor of kB since page sizes are always in these increments and historically the kernel has exported statistics this way via /proc/meminfo. -- 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