Andi Kleen wrote:
On Monday 12 June 2006 21:42, Rohit Seth wrote:
I think having this
information in each vma keeps the impact (of adding new counter) to very
low.
Second question is to advertize this value to user space. Please let me
know what suites the most among /proc, /sys or system call (or if there
is any other mechanism then let me know) for a per process per segment
related information.
I think we first need to identify the basic need.
Don't see why we even need per VMA information so far.
Exactly. There is no question that walking page tables will be slower
than having a counter like your patch does; the question is why we
need it.
--
Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com
-
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/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
