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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] mm, proc: add KReclaimable to /proc/meminfo
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 14:33:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180618143317.eb8f5d7b6c667784343ef902@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180618091808.4419-7-vbabka@suse.cz>

On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 11:18:07 +0200 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:

> The vmstat NR_KERNEL_MISC_RECLAIMABLE counter is for kernel non-slab
> allocations that can be reclaimed via shrinker. In /proc/meminfo, we can show
> the sum of all reclaimable kernel allocations (including slab) as
> "KReclaimable". Add the same counter also to per-node meminfo under /sys

Why do you consider this useful enough to justify adding it to
/pro/meminfo?  How will people use it, what benefit will they see, etc?


Maybe you've undersold this whole patchset, but I'm struggling a bit to
see what the end-user benefits are.  What would be wrong with just
sticking with what we have now?

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-18 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-18  9:18 [PATCH v2 0/7] kmalloc-reclaimable caches Vlastimil Babka
2018-06-18  9:18 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] mm, slab: combine kmalloc_caches and kmalloc_dma_caches Vlastimil Babka
2018-06-18  9:18 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] mm, slab/slub: introduce kmalloc-reclaimable caches Vlastimil Babka
2018-06-18  9:18 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] mm, slab: allocate off-slab freelists as reclaimable when appropriate Vlastimil Babka
2018-06-18  9:18 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] dcache: allocate external names from reclaimable kmalloc caches Vlastimil Babka
2018-06-18  9:18 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] mm: rename and change semantics of nr_indirectly_reclaimable_bytes Vlastimil Babka
2018-06-20 11:23   ` kbuild test robot
2018-06-29 15:37     ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-06-29 21:12       ` Roman Gushchin
2018-06-30 10:09         ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-07-02 16:52           ` Roman Gushchin
2018-07-17  8:44             ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-07-17 18:54               ` Roman Gushchin
2018-07-17 19:11                 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-06-18  9:18 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] mm, proc: add KReclaimable to /proc/meminfo Vlastimil Babka
2018-06-18 21:33   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2018-06-19  7:30     ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-06-19  8:13       ` Minchan Kim
2018-06-19 12:44         ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-06-18  9:18 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] mm, slab: shorten kmalloc cache names for large sizes Vlastimil Babka
2018-06-19  7:54 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] kmalloc-reclaimable caches Vlastimil Babka

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