Re: [RFCv3][PATCH 4/4] show page size in /proc/$pid/numa_maps

[David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>]

On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> > Why on earth do we want to convert a byte value into a string so a script 
> > can convert it the other way around?  Do you have a hard time parsing 
> > 4096, 2097152, and 1073741824 to be 4K, 2M, and 1G respectively?  
> 
> Yes I do. I dont have in my head all possible 2^X values, but K, M, G,
> T : thats ok (less neurons needed)
> 
> You focus on current x86_64 hardware.
> 
> Some arches have lot of different choices. (powerpc has 64K, 16M, 16GB
> pages)
> 
> In 10 years, you'll have pagesize=549755813888, or maybe
> pagesize=8589934592
> 
> I pretty much prefer pagesize=512GB and pagesize=8TB
> 
> This is consistent with usual conventions and practice.
> 

I'm indifferent whether it's displayed in bytes (so a script could do 
pagesize * anon, for example, and find the exact amount of anonymous 
memory for that vma without needing smaps) or in KB like /proc/pid/smaps, 
grep Hugepagesize /proc/meminfo, and ls /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages.

In other words, pagesize= in /proc/pid/numa_maps is the least of your 
worries if you're serious about this: you would have already struggled 
with smaps, meminfo, and the sysfs interface for reserving the hugepages 
in the first place.

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