Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965080AbWJJHpi (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 03:45:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965081AbWJJHpi (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 03:45:38 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:27362 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965080AbWJJHpi (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 03:45:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:45:26 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Chen, Kenneth W" , linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc1-mm1 Message-Id: <20061010004526.c7088e79.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1160464800.3000.264.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <20061010000928.9d2d519a.akpm@osdl.org> <1160464800.3000.264.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 957 Lines: 29 On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:20:00 +0200 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 00:09 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > +htlb-forget-rss-with-pt-sharing.patch Which I didn't write. cc's added. > if it's ok to ignore RSS, We'd prefer not to. But what's the alternative? > can we consider the shared pagetables for > normal pages patch? Has been repeatedly considered, but Hugh keeps finding bugs in it. > It saves quite a bit of memory on even desktop > workloads as well as avoiding several (soft) pagefaults. > > So.. what does RSS actually mean? Can we ignore it somewhat for > shared-readonly mappings ? We'd prefer to go the other way, and implement RLIMIT_RSS wouldn't we? - 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/