From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
John Berthels <jjberthels@gmail.com>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] maps: /proc/<pid>/pmaps interface - memory maps in granularity of pages
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:56:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070817035641.GK30556@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070817034437.GC5521@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 11:44:37AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > I'm so-so on this.
>
> Not that way! It's a good thing that people have different experiences
> and hence viewpoints. Maybe the concept of PFN sharing are
> straightforward to you, while I have been playing with seq_file a lot.
>
> > On the downside:
> >
> > - requires lots of parsing
> > - isn't random-access
> > - probably significantly slower than pagemap
>
> That could be true. Maybe some user with huge datasets will give us
> some idea about the performance. I don't know, maybe it's application
> dependent.
>
> Anyway I don't think it's fair to merge a binary interface without the
> challenge from a textual one ;)
Yes, that's why I didn't say I hated it.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-17 3:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-16 22:05 [PATCH 0/4] process memory footprints in proc/<pid>/[s|p]maps Fengguang Wu
2007-08-16 22:05 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-16 22:05 ` [PATCH 1/4] maps: PSS(proportional set size) accounting in smaps Fengguang Wu
2007-08-16 22:05 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-17 2:13 ` Matt Mackall
2007-08-17 2:44 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-17 2:44 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-16 22:05 ` [PATCH 2/4] maps: address based vma walking Fengguang Wu
2007-08-16 22:05 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-17 2:16 ` Matt Mackall
2007-08-17 2:54 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-17 2:54 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-16 22:05 ` [PATCH 3/4] maps: introduce generic_maps_open() Fengguang Wu
2007-08-16 22:05 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-16 22:05 ` [PATCH 4/4] maps: /proc/<pid>/pmaps interface - memory maps in granularity of pages Fengguang Wu
2007-08-16 22:05 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-17 2:38 ` Matt Mackall
2007-08-17 3:44 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-17 3:44 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-17 3:56 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2007-08-17 6:47 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-17 6:47 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-17 16:58 ` Matt Mackall
2007-08-18 2:48 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-18 2:48 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-18 6:40 ` Matt Mackall
2007-08-18 8:45 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-18 8:45 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-18 17:22 ` Matt Mackall
2007-08-19 0:40 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-19 0:40 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-18 10:31 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-18 10:31 ` Fengguang Wu
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-19 7:54 [PATCH 0/4] process memory footprint info in proc/<pid>/[s|p]maps v2 Fengguang Wu
2007-08-19 7:54 ` [PATCH 4/4] maps: /proc/<pid>/pmaps interface - memory maps in granularity of pages Fengguang Wu
2007-08-19 7:54 ` Fengguang Wu
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