On Thu 12-04-18 08:52:52, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > On 04/11/2018 03:56 PM, Roman Gushchin wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 03:16:08PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: [...] > >> With that in mind, can we at least for now put the (manually maintained) > >> byte counter in a variable that's not directly exposed via /proc/vmstat, > >> and then when printing nr_slab_reclaimable, simply add the value > >> (divided by PAGE_SIZE), and when printing nr_slab_unreclaimable, > >> subtract the same value. This way we would be simply making the existing > >> counters more precise, in line with their semantics. > > > > Idk, I don't like the idea of adding a counter outside of the vm counters > > infrastructure, and I definitely wouldn't touch the exposed > > nr_slab_reclaimable and nr_slab_unreclaimable fields. Why? > We would be just making the reported values more precise wrt reality. I was suggesting something similar in an earlier discussion. I am not really happy about the new exposed counter either. It is just arbitrary by name yet very specific for this particular usecase. What is a poor user supposed to do with the new counter? Can this be used for any calculations? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Lab
