From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, jack@suse.cz, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
david@fromorbit.com, npiggin@suse.de, hch@lst.de,
axboe@kernel.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] writeback: kernel visibility
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:11:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C6DAC15.7040004@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282251447-16937-1-git-send-email-mrubin@google.com>
On 08/19/2010 04:57 PM, Michael Rubin wrote:
> Patch #1 sets up some helper functions for accounting.
>
> Patch #2 adds writeback visibility in /proc/sys/vm.
>
> To help developers and applications gain visibility into writeback
> behaviour adding two read-only sysctl files into /proc/sys/vm.
> These files allow user apps to understand writeback behaviour over time
> and learn how it is impacting their performance.
>
> # cat /proc/sys/vm/pages_dirtied
> 3747
> # cat /proc/sys/vm/pages_entered_writeback
> 3618
Would it be better to have these values in /proc/vmstat
and /proc/zoneinfo ?
I don't really see why they need to be in /proc/sys
at all...
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-19 22:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-19 20:57 [PATCH 0/3] writeback: kernel visibility Michael Rubin
2010-08-19 20:57 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: helper functions for dirty and writeback accounting Michael Rubin
2010-08-20 2:34 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-20 8:19 ` Michael Rubin
2010-08-19 20:57 ` [PATCH 2/3] writeback: Adding pages_dirtied and pages_entered_writeback Michael Rubin
2010-08-20 2:51 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-20 6:54 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-20 8:16 ` Michael Rubin
2010-08-20 8:43 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-19 20:57 ` [PATCH 3/3] writeback: Reporting dirty thresholds in /proc/vmstat Michael Rubin
2010-08-20 3:16 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-20 8:18 ` Michael Rubin
2010-08-19 22:11 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
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