Dave Hansen wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 03:57 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: >> True, mmap() is a good example of such an interface for developers, I >> am not sure about system admins though. >> >> To quote Andrew >> <quote> >> Reporting tools could run getpagesize() and do the arithmetic, but we >> generally try to avoid exposing PAGE_SIZE, HZ, etc to userspace in this >> manner. >> </quote> > > Well, rounding to PAGE_SIZE exposes PAGE_SIZE as well, just in a > non-intuitive fashion. :) > Agreed, but the user might choose to ignore it altogether. > If we're going to modify what the user specifies, we should probably at > least mandate that writes are only a "suggestion" and users must read > back the value to ensure what actually got committed. > Agreed, excellent suggestion! > If we're going to round in any direction, shouldn't we round up? If a > user specifies 4097 bytes and uses two pages, we don't want to complain > when they hit that second page. > Absolutely, I used rounding to mean round up, truncation for rounding down. -- Warm Regards, Balbir Singh Linux Technology Center IBM, ISTL _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
