From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx114.postini.com [74.125.245.114]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A09A36B0044 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:52:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:52:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix up the vmscan stat in vmstat In-Reply-To: <1334253782-22755-1-git-send-email-yinghan@google.com> Message-ID: References: <1334253782-22755-1-git-send-email-yinghan@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Ying Han Cc: Michal Hocko , Johannes Weiner , Mel Gorman , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Rik van Riel , Hillf Danton , Hugh Dickins , Dan Magenheimer , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, Ying Han wrote: > It is always confusing on stat "pgsteal" where it counts both direct > reclaim as well as background reclaim. However, we have "kswapd_steal" > which also counts background reclaim value. > > This patch fixes it and also makes it match the existng "pgscan_" stats. It also removes one stat item (kswapd_steal) which strictly speaking is breaking the system ABI for tools that may rely on those stats. But I think this is pretty obscure stuff. No major tools would depend on this I guess. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org