Re: Avoid allocating during interleave from almost full nodes

[Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>]

Christoph wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Paul Jackson wrote:
> 
> >   Do you know of any existing counters that we could use like this?
> > 
> > Adding a system wide count of pages allocated or scanned, just for
> > these fullnode hint caches, bothers me.
> 
> There are already such counters. PGALLOC_* and PGSCAN_*. See 
> include/linux/vmstat.h


  Andrew,

    I'm willing to take a shot at replacing the wall clock time
    base with one of these vm counters, in my patch in *-mm:

	memory-page_alloc-zonelist-caching-speedup.patch

    But it will be a few weeks before I can get to it.

    I really need to do some other stuff first.

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