Re: [-mm][PATCH 3/4] Add rlimit controller accounting and control

[David Rientjes]

On Mon, 5 May 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

> IOW, have we chosen the best, most maintainable representation for these
> things?
> 

There was discussion early on in the development of the memory controller 
that bytes were going to be used as the base unit for accounting.  I had 
disagreed in favor of kB since page sizes are always in these increments 
and historically the kernel has exported statistics this way via 
/proc/meminfo.
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