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authorChen, Kenneth W <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>2006-12-06 20:32:07 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-12-07 08:39:21 -0800
commitcace673d376d97b0c66ffa0a49b8d588a696d5d2 (patch)
treec85c2ad65ad10132f00b484e91c8bfcd6e3f1afc /mm/slab.c
parent39dde65c9940c97fcd178a3d2b1c57ed8b7b68aa (diff)
[PATCH] htlb forget rss with pt sharing
Imprecise RSS accounting is an irritating ill effect with pt sharing. After consulted with several VM experts, I have tried various methods to solve that problem: (1) iterate through all mm_structs that share the PT and increment count; (2) keep RSS count in page table structure and then sum them up at reporting time. None of the above methods yield any satisfactory implementation. Since process RSS accounting is pure information only, I propose we don't count them at all for hugetlb page. rlimit has such field, though there is absolutely no enforcement on limiting that resource. One other method is to account all RSS at hugetlb mmap time regardless they are faulted or not. I opt for the simplicity of no accounting at all. Hugetlb page are special, they are reserved up front in global reservation pool and is not reclaimable. From physical memory resource point of view, it is already consumed regardless whether there are users using them. If the concern is that RSS can be used to control resource allocation, we already can specify hugetlb fs size limit and sysadmin can enforce that at mount time. Combined with the two points mentioned above, I fail to see if there is anything got affected because of this patch. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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