From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 614936B004F for ; Sun, 5 Jul 2009 13:03:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 20:07:00 +0800 From: Wu Fengguang Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] add buffer cache information to show_free_areas() Message-ID: <20090705120659.GA5252@localhost> References: <20090705182337.08F9.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <20090705112159.GB1898@localhost> <20090705202503.0914.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090705202503.0914.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: LKML , linux-mm , Andrew Morton , Christoph Lameter , David Rientjes , Rik van Riel List-ID: On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 07:31:02PM +0800, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 05:24:07PM +0800, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > > Subject: [PATCH] add buffer cache information to show_free_areas() > > > > > > When administrator analysis memory shortage reason from OOM log, They > > > often need to know rest number of cache like pages. > > > > nr_blockdev_pages() pages are also accounted in NR_FILE_PAGES. > > Yes, I know. > > > > Then, show_free_areas() shouldn't only display page cache, but also it > > > should display buffer cache. > > > > So if we are to add this, I'd suggest to put it close to the total > > pagecache line: > > > > printk("%ld total pagecache pages\n", global_page_state(NR_FILE_PAGES)); > > + printk("%ld blkdev pagecache pages\n", nr_blockdev_pages()); > > but this is intensional. May I explain why I choose non verbose area? > In typical workload, buffer-pages doesn't consume so many pages. then > I feel that your idea is too verbose output. In addition, if buffer-pages are much, > Administrator want to know other I/O related vmstat at the same time. > > > + " dirty:%lu writeback:%lu buffer:%lu unstable:%lu\n" Now I see your point. It makes sense to put typically small numbers together. Acked-by: Wu Fengguang Thanks, Fengguang > > > Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro > > > --- > > > mm/page_alloc.c | 3 ++- > > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > > > Index: b/mm/page_alloc.c > > > =================================================================== > > > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c > > > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c > > > @@ -2118,7 +2118,7 @@ void show_free_areas(void) > > > printk("Active_anon:%lu active_file:%lu inactive_anon:%lu\n" > > > " inactive_file:%lu" > > > " unevictable:%lu" > > > - " dirty:%lu writeback:%lu unstable:%lu\n" > > > + " dirty:%lu writeback:%lu buffer:%lu unstable:%lu\n" > > > " free:%lu slab_reclaimable:%lu slab_unreclaimable:%lu\n" > > > " mapped:%lu pagetables:%lu bounce:%lu\n", > > > global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_ANON), > > > @@ -2128,6 +2128,7 @@ void show_free_areas(void) > > > global_page_state(NR_UNEVICTABLE), > > > global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY), > > > global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK), > > > + K(nr_blockdev_pages()), > > > global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS), > > > global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES), > > > global_page_state(NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE), > > > > > -- 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