Re: deferred rss update instead of sloppy rss

Linus Torvalds
2004-11-22T22:40:39Z

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> I think the approach that I posted is simpler unless there are other
> benefits to be gained if it would be easy to figure out which tasks use an
> mm.

I'm just worried that your timer tick thing won't catch things in a timely
manner. That said, if that isn't an issue, and people don't have problems
with it. On the other hand, if /proc literally is the only real user, then
I guess it really can't matter.

Linus