From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754445Ab0IMC6l (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Sep 2010 22:58:41 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:8510 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754420Ab0IMC6i (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Sep 2010 22:58:38 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.56,357,1280732400"; d="scan'208";a="656595612" Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:58:32 +0800 From: Wu Fengguang To: Michael Rubin Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "jack@suse.cz" , "riel@redhat.com" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "david@fromorbit.com" , "kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com" , "npiggin@kernel.dk" , "hch@lst.de" , "axboe@kernel.dk" Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] writeback: nr_dirtied and nr_written in /proc/vmstat Message-ID: <20100913025831.GB7697@localhost> References: <1284323440-23205-1-git-send-email-mrubin@google.com> <1284323440-23205-4-git-send-email-mrubin@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1284323440-23205-4-git-send-email-mrubin@google.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 04:30:38AM +0800, Michael Rubin wrote: > To help developers and applications gain visibility into writeback > behaviour adding two entries to vm_stat_items and /proc/vmstat. This > will allow us to track the "written" and "dirtied" counts. > > # grep nr_dirtied /proc/vmstat > nr_dirtied 3747 > # grep nr_written /proc/vmstat > nr_cleaned 3618 s/nr_cleaned/nr_written Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang