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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 19/27] mm: Move vmscan writes and file write accounting to the node
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    On 06/09/2016 08:04 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
    > As reclaim is now node-based, it follows that page write activity
    > due to page reclaim should also be accounted for on the node. For
    > consistency, also account page writes and page dirtying on a per-node
    > basis.
    >
    > After this patch, there are a few remaining zone counters that may
    > appear strange but are fine. NUMA stats are still per-zone as this is a
    > user-space interface that tools consume. NR_MLOCK, NR_SLAB_*, NR_PAGETABLE,
    > NR_KERNEL_STACK and NR_BOUNCE are all allocations that potentially pin
    > low memory and cannot trivially be reclaimed on demand. This information
    > is still useful for debugging a page allocation failure warning.
    >
    > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>

    Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

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