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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] xfs: add kmem allocation trace points
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 00:47:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190826074735.GA20346@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190826014007.10877-2-david@fromorbit.com>

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 11:40:05AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> 
> When trying to correlate XFS kernel allocations to memory reclaim
> behaviour, it is useful to know what allocations XFS is actually
> attempting. This information is not directly available from
> tracepoints in the generic memory allocation and reclaim
> tracepoints, so these new trace points provide a high level
> indication of what the XFS memory demand actually is.
> 
> There is no per-filesystem context in this code, so we just trace
> the type of allocation, the size and the allocation constraints.
> The kmem code also doesn't include much of the common XFS headers,
> so there are a few definitions that need to be added to the trace
> headers and a couple of types that need to be made common to avoid
> needing to include the whole world in the kmem code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>

Looks good, although I'd still prefer the AG enum move in a separate
prep patch:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-26  7:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-26  1:40 [PATCH v2] xfs: use aligned buffers for IO Dave Chinner
2019-08-26  1:40 ` [PATCH 1/3] xfs: add kmem allocation trace points Dave Chinner
2019-08-26  7:47   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-08-26  1:40 ` [PATCH 2/3] xfs: get allocation alignment from the buftarg Dave Chinner
2019-08-26  7:48   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-26  1:40 ` [PATCH 3/3] xfs: add kmem_alloc_io() Dave Chinner
2019-08-26  7:52   ` Christoph Hellwig
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-08-21  8:38 [PATCH 0/3] xfs: avoid IO issues unaligned memory allocation Dave Chinner
2019-08-21  8:38 ` [PATCH 1/3] xfs: add kmem allocation trace points Dave Chinner
2019-08-21 13:34   ` Brian Foster
2019-08-21 23:20   ` Christoph Hellwig

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