[Devel] Re: [patch -rss] Make RSS accounting display more user friendly

2007-06-25 Thread Paul Menage
On 6/22/07, Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

[Devel] Re: [patch -rss] Make RSS accounting display more user friendly

2007-06-25 Thread Balbir Singh
Paul Menage wrote: On 6/22/07, Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

[Devel] Re: [PATCH -mm 2/2] x86_64: semi-rewrite of PTRACE_PEEKUSR, PTRACE_POKEUSR

2007-06-25 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 02:41:48PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: What's the purpose of the change? Chopping small bits of utrace to mainline. regset stuff looks reasonable and self-contained enough to start with. However, regset part in utrace contain quite a few unused things, so I'm leaving

[Devel] Re: [NETFILTER] early_drop() imrovement (v3)

2007-06-25 Thread Patrick McHardy
Vasily Averin wrote: +static int early_drop(const struct nf_conntrack_tuple *orig) +{ + unsigned int i, hash, cnt; + int ret = 0; + + hash = hash_conntrack(orig); + cnt = NF_CT_PER_BUCKET; + + for (i = 0; + !ret cnt i nf_conntrack_htable_size; +

[Devel] Re: [RFD] L2 Network namespace infrastructure

2007-06-25 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting David Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:19:34 -0600 Further and fundamentally all a global achieves is removing the need for the noise patches where you pass the pointer into the various functions. For long term

[Devel] Re: [RFD] L2 Network namespace infrastructure

2007-06-25 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Eric W. Biederman wrote: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Miller wrote: I don't accept that we have to add another function argument to a bunch of core routines just to support this crap, especially since you give no way to turn it off

[Devel] Re: [RFC] mm-controller

2007-06-25 Thread Balbir Singh
Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 22:05 +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote: Merging both limits will eliminate the issue, however we would need individual limits for pagecache and RSS for better control. There are use cases for pagecache_limit alone without RSS_limit like the

[Devel] Re: [RFC] mm-controller

2007-06-25 Thread Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
Paul Menage wrote: On 6/25/07, Paul Menage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/22/07, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Merging both limits will eliminate the issue, however we would need individual limits for pagecache and RSS for better control. There are use cases for

[Devel] Re: [PATCH 1/4] sysfs: Remove first pass at shadow directory support

2007-06-25 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 01:33:42AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: While shadow directories appear to be a good idea, the current scheme of controlling their creation and destruction outside of sysfs appears to be a locking and maintenance nightmare in the face of sysfs directories

[Devel] Re: [PATCH 13/28] [PREP 13/14] Miscellaneous preparations in pid namespaces

2007-06-25 Thread sukadev
Pavel Emelianov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Pavel Emelianov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | The most important one is moving exit_task_namespaces behind exit_notify | | in do_exit() to make it possible to see the task's pid namespace to | | properly notify the parent. |

[Devel] Re: [PATCH 1/4] sysfs: Remove first pass at shadow directory support

2007-06-25 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ick, no, it isn't and doesn't apply at all :( Groan. I wonder what changed this time... Can you try the next -mm release? Ok. As soon as I get back from OLS, I will rebase against whatever is current. Eric ___