Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 02 May 2009 10:21:34 -0400 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] vmscan: don't export nr_saved_scan in /proc/zoneinfo |
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Wu Fengguang wrote: > The lru->nr_saved_scan's are not meaningful counters for even kernel > developers. They typically are smaller than 32 and are always 0 for > large lists. So remove them from /proc/zoneinfo. > > Hopefully this interface change won't break too many scripts. > /proc/zoneinfo is too unstructured to be script friendly, and I wonder > the affected scripts - if there are any - are still bleeding since the > not long ago commit "vmscan: split LRU lists into anon & file sets", > which also touched the "scanned" line :) > > If we are to re-export accumulated vmscan counts in the future, they > can go to new lines in /proc/zoneinfo instead of the current form, or > to /sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo? > > CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> > Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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