Re: [PATCH]: Adding a counter in vma to indicate the number of physical pages backing it

[Andi Kleen]

> It is just the price of those walks that makes smaps not an attractive
> solution for monitoring purposes.

It just shouldn't be used for that. It's a debugging hack and not really 
suitable for monitoring even with optimizations.

For monitoring if the current numa statistics are not good enough
you should probably propose new counters.

-Andi
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