Re: deferred rss update instead of sloppy rss

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Nick Piggin wrote:

> Deferred rss might be a practical solution, but I'd prefer this if it can
> be made workable.

Both results in an additional field in task_struct that is going to be
incremented when the page_table_lock is not held. It would be possible
to switch to looping in procfs later. The main question with this patchset
is:

How and when can we get this get into the kernel?

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