Hi, this is rebased on top of next-20160818. Joe has pointed out that meminfo is using a similar trick so I have extracted guts of what we have already and made it more generic to be usable for smaps as well (patch 1). The second patch then replaces seq_printf with seq_write and show_val_kb which should have smaller overhead and my measuring (in kvm) shows quite a nice improvements. I hope kvm is not playing tricks on me but I didn't get to test on a real HW. Michal Hocko (2): proc, meminfo: abstract show_val_kb proc, smaps: reduce printing overhead fs/proc/internal.h | 17 ++++++++++ fs/proc/meminfo.c | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------- fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 58 +++++++++++----------------------- 3 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 87 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>