On 06/18/2018 11:33 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 11:18:07 +0200 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> The vmstat NR_KERNEL_MISC_RECLAIMABLE counter is for kernel non-slab >> allocations that can be reclaimed via shrinker. In /proc/meminfo, we can show >> the sum of all reclaimable kernel allocations (including slab) as >> "KReclaimable". Add the same counter also to per-node meminfo under /sys > > Why do you consider this useful enough to justify adding it to > /pro/meminfo? How will people use it, what benefit will they see, etc? Let's add this: With this counter, users will have more complete information about kernel memory usage. Non-slab reclaimable pages (currently just the ION allocator) will not be missing from /proc/meminfo, making users wonder where part of their memory went. More precisely, they already appear in MemAvailable, but without the new counter, it's not obvious why the value in MemAvailable doesn't fully correspond with the sum of other counters participating in it. > Maybe you've undersold this whole patchset, but I'm struggling a bit to > see what the end-user benefits are. What would be wrong with just > sticking with what we have now? Fair enough, I will add more info in reply to the cover letter.
