> > But also, because this will be used to calculate consumption, we > > should add a note in > > the documentation to differentiate between live storage usage vs the > > DSA footprint, > > which will not be shrunk when entries are deleted. Someone may be confused > > that their entries are much lower after deleting entries, but their memory > > footprint is still high because the OS does not reclaim the free'd space. > > What do you think? > > Hmm. I am not completely sure which way is best here. So, I think > that I am just going to drop this field for now (entry_size as of > latest patch), and keep the rest of the patch. It's still useful to > me, and we could always add one or more memory-related field later as > we feel in this release cycle.
Right. I also think this needs more discussion, and it should not hold up everything else. -- Sami
