From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Adding a counter in vma to indicate the number =?utf-8?q?of=09physical_pages_backing?= it Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:58:40 +0200 References: <1149903235.31417.84.camel@galaxy.corp.google.com> <448A762F.7000105@yahoo.com.au> <1150133795.9576.19.camel@galaxy.corp.google.com> In-Reply-To: <1150133795.9576.19.camel@galaxy.corp.google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606121958.41127.ak@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: rohitseth@google.com Cc: Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , Linux-mm@kvack.org, Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > It is just the price of those walks that makes smaps not an attractive > solution for monitoring purposes. It just shouldn't be used for that. It's a debugging hack and not really suitable for monitoring even with optimizations. For monitoring if the current numa statistics are not good enough you should probably propose new counters. -Andi -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org