On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:44:31 -0700 Balbir Singh wrote: > Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Sun, 2028-02-27 at 02:39 -0500, Balbir Singh wrote: > > > >> I am not a CLUI expert, but rounding off bytes will something that > >> the administrators will probably complain about. Since we manage > >> the controller memory in pages, it might be the easiest unit to use. > >> The output is totally different matter. > >> > >> Having said that, I am not opposed to your suggestion, I'll see if > >> I can find good CLUI guidelines. > > > > Pages are generally considered a bad unit for user-space exposed > > parameters because a page can have a wide spectrum of sizes on some > > machines. > > > > Exactly! > > > The typical unit used in its stead is KiB. Although I could imagine MiB > > being more useful in this case :-) > > > > I think a routine that can handle either KiB or MiB would probably be the best > > > Perhaps a new proc parser that takes postfix [KMG] units would be > > handy.. > > > > Hmm.. yes.. a library routine would be nice!
you mean something like lib/cmdline.c::memparse() ? --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
