From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755573AbXFYMo0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:44:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755445AbXFYMoR (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:44:17 -0400 Received: from ausmtp04.au.ibm.com ([202.81.18.152]:53931 "EHLO ausmtp04.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753491AbXFYMoP (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:44:15 -0400 Message-ID: <6D63B142.2080404@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2028 02:39:46 -0500 From: Balbir Singh Reply-To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com Organization: IBM User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Menage CC: Linux Containers , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Pavel Emelianov Subject: Re: [patch -rss] Make RSS accounting display more user friendly References: <20070620154655.13844.42876.sendpatchset@balbir-laptop> <6599ad830706211217l65d76d4ehb42f9165bcf45dd@mail.gmail.com> <467B2F4F.2030101@openvz.org> <6599ad830706220839h2a556c76he11b78c2c4cdb86e@mail.gmail.com> <661de9470706222048g638a06dboc0b2e85975a9ba70@mail.gmail.com> <6599ad830706250019h117ff575h156cf112f5778e43@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6599ad830706250019h117ff575h156cf112f5778e43@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Paul Menage wrote: > On 6/22/07, Balbir Singh wrote: >> >> The problem with input in bytes is that the user will have to ensure >> that the input is >> a multiple of page size, which implies that she would need to use the >> calculator every time. >> > > Having input in bytes seems pretty natural to me. Why not just have > the RSS controller round the input to the nearest page (or whatever > granularity of memory the controller is able to limit at)? > > Paul Hi, Paul, I am not a CLUI expert, but rounding off bytes will something that the administrators will probably complain about. Since we manage the controller memory in pages, it might be the easiest unit to use. The output is totally different matter. Having said that, I am not opposed to your suggestion, I'll see if I can find good CLUI guidelines. -- Warm Regards, Balbir Singh Linux Technology Center IBM, ISTL