Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans -- lumpy reclaim

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 01 May 2007 14:02:41 +0100 Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have some primitive stats patches which we have used performance
> testing.  Perhaps those could be brought up to date to provide better
> visibility into lumpy's operation.  Again this would be a separate patch.

Feel free to add new counters in /proc/vmstat - perhaps per-order
success and fail rates?  Monitoring the ratio between those would show
how effective lumpiness is being, perhaps.

It's always nice to see what's going on in there.
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