From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/14] vmscan: add shrink_slab tracepoints
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 05:57:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110711095708.GB19354@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1310098486-6453-3-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 02:14:34PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
>
> ??t is impossible to understand what the shrinkers are actually doing
> without instrumenting the code, so add a some tracepoints to allow
> insight to be gained.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Looks good. But wouldn't it be a good idea to give the shrinkers names
so that we can pretty print those in the trace event?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-11 9:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-08 4:14 [PATCH 0/14] Per superblock cache reclaim Dave Chinner
2011-07-08 4:14 ` [PATCH 01/14] dcache: fix __d_alloc prototype to use const Dave Chinner
2011-07-08 4:14 ` [PATCH 02/14] vmscan: add shrink_slab tracepoints Dave Chinner
2011-07-11 9:57 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-07-18 1:14 ` Dave Chinner
2011-07-08 4:14 ` [PATCH 03/14] vmscan: shrinker->nr updates race and go wrong Dave Chinner
2011-07-08 4:14 ` [PATCH 04/14] vmscan: reduce wind up shrinker->nr when shrinker can't do work Dave Chinner
2011-07-08 4:14 ` [PATCH 05/14] vmscan: add customisable shrinker batch size Dave Chinner
2011-07-08 4:14 ` [PATCH 06/14] inode: convert inode_stat.nr_unused to per-cpu counters Dave Chinner
2011-07-08 4:14 ` [PATCH 07/14] inode: Make unused inode LRU per superblock Dave Chinner
2011-07-08 4:14 ` [PATCH 08/14] inode: move to per-sb LRU locks Dave Chinner
2011-07-11 19:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-12 0:34 ` Dave Chinner
2011-07-08 4:14 ` [PATCH 09/14] superblock: move pin_sb_for_writeback() to fs/super.c Dave Chinner
2011-07-08 4:14 ` [PATCH 10/14] superblock: introduce per-sb cache shrinker infrastructure Dave Chinner
2011-07-08 4:14 ` [PATCH 11/14] inode: remove iprune_sem Dave Chinner
2011-07-08 4:14 ` [PATCH 12/14] superblock: add filesystem shrinker operations Dave Chinner
2011-07-08 4:14 ` [PATCH 13/14] vfs: increase shrinker batch size Dave Chinner
2011-07-11 10:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-08 4:14 ` [PATCH 14/14] xfs: make use of new shrinker callout for the inode cache Dave Chinner
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