Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:55:05 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: don't show nr_indirectly_reclaimable in /proc/vmstat |
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > Don't show nr_indirectly_reclaimable in /proc/vmstat, > > because there is no need in exporting this vm counter > > to the userspace, and some changes are expected > > in reclaimable object accounting, which can alter > > this counter. > > > > Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> > > Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> > > Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> > > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > > Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> > > Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> > > Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> > > This is quite a hack. I would much rather revert the counter and fixed > it the way Vlastimil has proposed. But if there is a strong opposition > to the revert then this is probably the simples thing to do. Therefore >
Implementing this counter as a vmstat doesn't make much sense based on how it's used. Do you have a link to what Vlastimil proposed? I haven't seen mention of alternative ideas.
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