Re: [patch -rss] Make RSS accounting display more user friendly

From: Kirill Korotaev
Date: Tue Jun 26 2007 - 08:39:46 EST


Paul Menage wrote:
> On 6/22/07, Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>The problem with input in bytes is that the user will have to ensure
>>that the input is
>>a multiple of page size, which implies that she would need to use the
>>calculator every time.
>>
>
>
> Having input in bytes seems pretty natural to me. Why not just have
> the RSS controller round the input to the nearest page (or whatever
> granularity of memory the controller is able to limit at)?

totally agree with Paul.

Kirill

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