Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261185AbUKVWpS (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:45:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261157AbUKVWmd (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:42:33 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:410 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261172AbUKVWlV (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:41:21 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:40:39 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Christoph Lameter cc: Hugh Dickins , akpm@osdl.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Nick Piggin , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: deferred rss update instead of sloppy rss In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 718 Lines: 19 On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > I think the approach that I posted is simpler unless there are other > benefits to be gained if it would be easy to figure out which tasks use an > mm. I'm just worried that your timer tick thing won't catch things in a timely manner. That said, if that isn't an issue, and people don't have problems with it. On the other hand, if /proc literally is the only real user, then I guess it really can't matter. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/