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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Roger Larsson <roger.larsson@norran.net>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] VM statistics to gather
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 20:59:11 -0300 (BRST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0106252048230.23373-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200106252339.f5PNd9x07535@maile.telia.com>

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Roger Larsson wrote:

> What about
>
>    unsigned int vm_pgfails /* failed alloc attempts, in pages (not calls) */

What would that represent ?

How often __alloc_pages() exits without allocating anything?

> maybe even a
>
>    unsigned int vm_pgallocs /* alloc attempts, in pages */
>
> for sanity checking - should be the sum of several other combinations...

Sounds like a nice idea.

> Should memory zone be used as dimension?

Useful for allocations I guess, but it may be too confusing
if we do this for all statistics... OTOH...

Comments, anyone?

regards,

Rik
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-25 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-25 23:04 Rik van Riel
2001-06-25 23:35 ` Roger Larsson
2001-06-25 23:59   ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2001-06-26  1:11     ` Roger Larsson
2001-06-26  7:42     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-06-26  1:45 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-26  7:13   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-26  4:24 ` Andrew Morton
2001-06-26  5:07   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-26  5:10     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-26  7:59     ` Andrew Morton
2001-06-27 10:30       ` Marcelo Tosatti

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