From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1948379AbcBRVFM (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2016 16:05:12 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:50885 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1947965AbcBRVFK (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2016 16:05:10 -0500 Message-ID: <1455829507.15821.69.camel@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] proc: do not include shmem and driver pages in /proc/meminfo::Cached From: Rik van Riel To: Johannes Weiner , linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Hugh Dickins , Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 16:05:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1455827801-13082-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> References: <1455827801-13082-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-cC6pBBNk06APht7w+ZIR" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-cC6pBBNk06APht7w+ZIR Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2016-02-18 at 15:36 -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote: >=C2=A0 > The semantics of Cached including shmem and kernel pages have been > this way forever, dictated by the single-LRU implementation rather >=20 They may have been that way forever, but they have also been confusing to users forever, so ... > than optimal semantics. So it's an uncomfortable proposal to change > it > now. But what other way to fix this for existing users? What other > way > to make the interface more intuitive for future users? And what could > break by removing it now? I guess somebody who already subtracts > Shmem > from Cached. >=20 > What are your thoughts on this? >=C2=A0 Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel --=C2=A0 All rights reversed --=-cC6pBBNk06APht7w+ZIR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAABAgAGBQJWxjIDAAoJEM553pKExN6DLeEH/A5r/g6njVnlExdi+7it41gZ I/nZxkmRzEtVYWGSKoS+i/JItuv38riFB5xK8GwGLPUEQ++OcEh0Zcogv8Pmj8IB EmzqpyQdpt/GYlopRIXK0DBWS1q2ilJ1xAeUNOT3Mgc3AO/znPv1LJRRbzc/F3xH O+HA5R6NBsZFnsUIbVTMRcj8THvfXTu7pf/ptw6jrL52HtU+UFBzB3mfExKFdxKy oEZI8OmV51U/aY5HIEuQts4JhgYQtuYEl4pna8GPVrawh1GHHk2qjvd8i9YEmPXH HnxQ574+VI90lr2FTEC783V3V4tUEHfta8Ly/yiOyHeThuadhjXmh9M58W8K8aM= =Bui8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-cC6pBBNk06APht7w+ZIR--