Re: [PATCH 02/14] vmscan: add shrink_slab tracepoints

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Jul 11 2011 - 05:57:16 EST


On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 02:14:34PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ??t is impossible to understand what the shrinkers are actually doing
> without instrumenting the code, so add a some tracepoints to allow
> insight to be gained.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good. But wouldn't it be a good idea to give the shrinkers names
so that we can pretty print those in the trace event?

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