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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Saravanan D <saravanand@fb.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, luto@kernel.org,
	peterz@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@fb.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] x86/mm: Tracking linear mapping split events
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:32:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5562757e-578b-0ad7-1a9c-c64238283ab7@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YBHVCZscdVsxbFUk@slm.duckdns.org>

On 1/27/21 1:03 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> The lifetime split event information will be displayed at the bottom of
>> /proc/vmstat
>> ....
>> swap_ra 0
>> swap_ra_hit 0
>> direct_map_2M_splits 139
>> direct_map_4M_splits 0
>> direct_map_1G_splits 7
>> nr_unstable 0
>> ....
> 
> This looks great to me.

Yeah, this looks fine to me.  It's way better than meminfo.

>>  arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c  | 117 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  include/linux/vm_event_item.h |   8 +++
>>  mm/vmstat.c                   |   8 +++
>>  3 files changed, 133 insertions(+)
> 
> So, now the majority of the added code is to add debugfs knobs which don't
> provide anything that userland can't already do by simply reading the
> monotonic counters.
> 
> Dave, are you still set on the resettable counters?

Not *really*.  But, you either need them to be resettable, or you need
to expect your users to take snapshots and compare changes over time.
Considering how much more code it is, though, I'm not super attached to it.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-27 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <BYAPR01MB40856478D5BE74CB6A7D5578CFBD9@BYAPR01MB4085.prod.exchangelabs.com>
2021-01-25 20:15 ` [PATCH] x86/mm: Tracking linear mapping split events since boot Dave Hansen
2021-01-25 20:32   ` Tejun Heo
2021-01-26  0:47     ` Dave Hansen
2021-01-26  0:53       ` Tejun Heo
2021-01-26  1:04         ` Dave Hansen
2021-01-26  1:17           ` Tejun Heo
2021-01-27 17:51           ` [PATCH V2] x86/mm: Tracking linear mapping split events Saravanan D
2021-01-27 21:03             ` Tejun Heo
2021-01-27 21:32               ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2021-01-27 21:36                 ` Tejun Heo
2021-01-27 21:42                   ` Saravanan D
2021-01-27 22:50                   ` [PATCH V3] " Saravanan D
2021-01-27 23:00                     ` Randy Dunlap
2021-01-27 23:56                       ` Saravanan D
2021-01-27 23:41                     ` Dave Hansen
2021-01-28  0:15                       ` Saravanan D
2021-01-28  4:35                       ` [PATCH V4] " Saravanan D
2021-01-28  4:51                         ` Matthew Wilcox
     [not found]                           ` <20210128104934.2916679-1-saravanand@fb.com>
2021-01-28 15:04                             ` [PATCH V5] " Matthew Wilcox
2021-01-28 19:49                               ` Saravanan D
2021-01-28 16:33                             ` Zi Yan
2021-01-28 16:41                               ` Dave Hansen
2021-01-28 16:56                                 ` Zi Yan
2021-01-28 16:59                               ` Song Liu
     [not found]                             ` <3aec2d10-f4c3-d07a-356f-6f1001679181@intel.com>
2021-01-28 21:20                               ` Saravanan D
     [not found]                                 ` <20210128233430.1460964-1-saravanand@fb.com>
2021-01-28 23:41                                   ` [PATCH V6] " Tejun Heo
2021-01-29 19:27                                   ` Johannes Weiner
2021-02-08 23:17                                     ` Saravanan D
2021-02-08 23:30                                   ` Dave Hansen

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