On Fri, 23 May 2025 10:20:29 -0700 SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 23 May 2025 11:16:13 +0800 Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On some large machines with a high number of CPUs running a 64K kernel, > > What does 64K kernel means? > > > we found that the 'RES' field is always 0 displayed by the top command > > for some processes, which will cause a lot of confusion for users. > > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > > 875525 root 20 0 12480 0 0 R 0.3 0.0 0:00.08 top > > 1 root 20 0 172800 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.52 systemd > > > > The main reason is that the batch size of the percpu counter is quite large > > on these machines, caching a significant percpu value, since converting mm's > > rss stats into percpu_counter by commit f1a7941243c1 ("mm: convert mm's rss > > stats into percpu_counter"). Forgot asking this, sorry. Should we add Fixes: tag and Cc stable@? Thanks, SJ [...]