From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from digeo-nav01.digeo.com (digeo-nav01.digeo.com [192.168.1.233]) by packet.digeo.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA17608 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 00:01:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D84340A.25ED4C69@digeo.com> Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 00:17:30 -0700 From: Andrew Morton MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] add vmalloc stats to meminfo References: <3D8422BB.5070104@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Dave Hansen Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Dave Hansen wrote: > > Some workloads like to eat up a lot of vmalloc space. Which workloads are those? > It is often hard to tell > whether this is because the area is too small, or just too fragmented. This > makes it easy to determine. I do not recall ever having seen any bug/problem reports which this patch would have helped to solve. Could you explain in more detai why is it useful? -- 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/