Re: [PATCH 09/12] mm: count unstable pages per BDI

Peter Zijlstra
2007-04-19T19:00:36Z

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 20:46 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 20:12 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 19:44 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > > Count per BDI unstable pages.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I'm wondering, is it really worth having this category separate from
> > > per BDI brity pages?
> > >
> > > With the exception of the export to sysfs, always the sum of unstable
> > > + dirty is used.
> >
> > I guess you are right, but it offends my sense of aesthetics to break
> > symmetry with the zone statistics. However, it has the added advantage
> > of only needing 2 deltas as well.
>
> I guess, this should do.

OK, the compiler told me I messed up :-/. I'll respin the whole series
and repost tomorrow or something...