Re: balance_pgdat(): where is total_scanned ever updated?

From: Chuck Ebbert
Date: Tue Nov 09 2004 - 22:40:26 EST


Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There's lots of useful info in /proc/vmstat.

And the documentation on these fields is the source code itself, right? :)

The nr_dirty field seems kind of useless -- why not have nr_dirtied
and nr_cleaned instead? Analysis tools can subtract them to get nr_dirty.
Or is there some other field that shows the nr of pages being dirtied?


--Chuck Ebbert 09-Nov-04 22:13:44
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