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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! -- Warm Regards, Balbir Singh Linux Technology Center IBM, ISTL - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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