On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Mel Gorman wrote: > The compact_pages_moved and compact_pagemigrate_failed events are > convenient for determining if compaction is active and to what > degree migration is succeeding but it's at the wrong level. Other > users of migration may also want to know if migration is working > properly and this will be particularly true for any automated > NUMA migration. This patch moves the counters down to migration > with the new events called pgmigrate_success and pgmigrate_fail. > The compact_blocks_moved counter is removed because while it was > useful for debugging initially, it's worthless now as no meaningful > conclusions can be drawn from its value. > Agreed, "compact_blocks_moved" should have been named "compact_blocks_scanned" to accurately describe what it was representing. > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>