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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, roman.gushchin@linux.dev,
	hannes@cmpxchg.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] mm: Centralize & improve oom reporting in show_mem.c
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 08:58:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yl+vHJ3lSLn5ZkWN@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220419203202.2670193-4-kent.overstreet@gmail.com>

On Tue 19-04-22 16:32:01, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> This patch:
>  - Moves lib/show_mem.c to mm/show_mem.c

Sure, why not. Should be a separate patch.

>  - Changes show_mem() to always report on slab usage
>  - Instead of reporting on all slabs, we only report on top 10 slabs,
>    and in sorted order
>  - Also reports on shrinkers, with the new shrinkers_to_text().

Why do we need/want this? It would be also great to provide an example
of why the new output is better (in which cases) than the existing one.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-20  6:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-19 20:31 [PATCH 0/4] Printbufs & shrinker OOM reporting Kent Overstreet
2022-04-19 20:31 ` [PATCH 1/4] lib/printbuf: New data structure for heap-allocated strings Kent Overstreet
2022-04-19 21:11   ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-04-20  0:12     ` Kent Overstreet
2022-04-20  5:02   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-20  5:18     ` Kent Overstreet
2022-04-19 20:32 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm: Add a .to_text() method for shrinkers Kent Overstreet
2022-04-19 20:32 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm: Centralize & improve oom reporting in show_mem.c Kent Overstreet
2022-04-20  6:58   ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2022-04-20 16:58     ` Kent Overstreet
2022-04-21  9:18       ` Michal Hocko
2022-04-21 18:42         ` Kent Overstreet
2022-04-22  8:03           ` Michal Hocko
2022-04-22  8:30             ` Kent Overstreet
2022-04-22  9:27               ` Michal Hocko
2022-04-22  9:44                 ` Kent Overstreet
2022-04-22 10:51                   ` Michal Hocko
2022-04-22 10:58                     ` Kent Overstreet
2022-04-19 20:32 ` [PATCH 4/4] bcachefs: shrinker.to_text() methods Kent Overstreet
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-04-21 23:48 [PATCH 0/4] Printbufs & shrinker OOM reporting Kent Overstreet
2022-04-21 23:48 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm: Centralize & improve oom reporting in show_mem.c Kent Overstreet

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