Re: [PATCH 0/5] Some vmevent fixes...

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On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I don't mean VMEVENT_ATTR_LOWMEM_PAGES but following as,
>>
>> VMEVENT_ATTR_NR_FREE_PAGES
>> VMEVENT_ATTR_NR_SWAP_PAGES
>> VMEVENT_ATTR_NR_AVAIL_PAGES
>>
>> I'm not sure how it is useful.
>
> Yep, these raw values are mostly useless, and personally I don't use
> these plain attributes. I use heuristics, i.e. "blended" attributes.
> If we can come up with levels-based approach w/o using vmstat, well..
> OK then.

That's what Nokia's lowmem notifier uses. We can probably drop them
once we have something else they could use.

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