Re: [PATCH 3/5] writeback: nr_dirtied and nr_written in /proc/vmstat
From: Michael Rubin
Date: Wed Sep 15 2010 - 01:23:39 EST
I know it's been applied but in case you want minor nits fixed. I am
sending one more update.
mrubin
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Michael Rubin <mrubin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 22:58:11 -0700
>> Michael Rubin <mrubin@xxxxxxxxxx> 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_written 3618
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Michael Rubin <mrubin@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> include/linux/mmzone.h | 2 ++
>>> mm/page-writeback.c | 2 ++
>>> mm/vmstat.c | 3 +++
>>> 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
>>> index 6e6e626..d0d7454 100644
>>> --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
>>> +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
>>> @@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ enum zone_stat_item {
>>> NR_ISOLATED_ANON, /* Temporary isolated pages from anon lru */
>>> NR_ISOLATED_FILE, /* Temporary isolated pages from file lru */
>>> NR_SHMEM, /* shmem pages (included tmpfs/GEM pages) */
>>> + NR_FILE_DIRTIED, /* accumulated dirty pages */
>>> + NR_WRITTEN, /* accumulated written pages */
>>
>> I think we can make those comments less ambiguous>
>>
>> --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
>> +++ a/include/linux/mmzone.h
>> @@ -104,8 +104,8 @@ enum zone_stat_item {
>> NR_ISOLATED_ANON, /* Temporary isolated pages from anon lru */
>> NR_ISOLATED_FILE, /* Temporary isolated pages from file lru */
>> NR_SHMEM, /* shmem pages (included tmpfs/GEM pages) */
>> - NR_FILE_DIRTIED, /* accumulated dirty pages */
>> - NR_WRITTEN, /* accumulated written pages */
>> + NR_FILE_DIRTIED, /* page dirtyings since bootup */
>> + NR_WRITTEN, /* page writings since bootup */
>
> Got it. Will fix.
>
>> The mismatch between "NR_FILE_DIRTIED" and "nr_dirtied" is a bit, umm,
>> dirty. I can kinda see the logic in the naming but still..
>
> Got it will fix.
>
> mrubin
>
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