Re: [Patch 6/7] Swapin page fault delays

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 03:22 -0500, Shailabh Nagar wrote:
> delayacct-swapin.patch
> 
> Record time spent by a task waiting for its pages to be swapped in.
> This statistic can help in adjusting the rss limits of 
> tasks (process), especially relative to each other, when the system is 
> under memory pressure.


ok this poses a question: how do you deal with nested timings? Say an
O_SYC write which internally causes a pagefault?
delayacct_timestamp_start() at minimum has to get event-type specific,
or even implement a stack of some sorts.

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