On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 08:53:21AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Thu 20-08-15 23:34:51, Naoya Horiguchi wrote: > [...] > > > Reading a single file is, of course, easier but is it really worth the > > > additional code? I haven't really looked at the patch so I might be > > > missing something but what would be an advantage over reading > > > /proc/<pid>/smaps and extracting the information from there? > > > > My first idea was just "users should feel it useful", but permission as > > David > > commented sounds a good technical reason to me. > > 9 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > is quite a lot especially when it touches hot paths like fork so it > better should have a good usecase. I have already asked in the other > email but is actually anybody requesting this? Nice to have is not > a good justification IMO.
I need some way to judge the real rss of a process, including huge pages. No strong opinion on implementation details, but something is clearly needed. If you have processes with 99% huge pages, you are currently reduced to guesswork. Jörn -- Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations. -- George Orwell -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
