On 08/19/2010 04:57 PM, Michael Rubin wrote:
Patch #1 sets up some helper functions for accounting. Patch #2 adds writeback visibility in /proc/sys/vm. To help developers and applications gain visibility into writeback behaviour adding two read-only sysctl files into /proc/sys/vm. These files allow user apps to understand writeback behaviour over time and learn how it is impacting their performance. # cat /proc/sys/vm/pages_dirtied 3747 # cat /proc/sys/vm/pages_entered_writeback 3618
Would it be better to have these values in /proc/vmstat and /proc/zoneinfo ? I don't really see why they need to be in /proc/sys at all... -- All rights reversed -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>