From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 12:00:28 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans -- lumpy reclaim Message-Id: <20070501120028.a4b62d6e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <46373A71.4030200@shadowen.org> References: <20070430162007.ad46e153.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070501101651.GA29957@skynet.ie> <46373A71.4030200@shadowen.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Mel Gorman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, clameter@sgi.com, y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com, Peter Zijlstra List-ID: On Tue, 01 May 2007 14:02:41 +0100 Andy Whitcroft wrote: > I have some primitive stats patches which we have used performance > testing. Perhaps those could be brought up to date to provide better > visibility into lumpy's operation. Again this would be a separate patch. Feel free to add new counters in /proc/vmstat - perhaps per-order success and fail rates? Monitoring the ratio between those would show how effective lumpiness is being, perhaps. It's always nice to see what's going on in there. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org