Re: [RFC PATCH -tip 0/5] perf tools: pagecache monitoring

From: Keiichi KII
Date: Thu Jul 28 2011 - 20:30:34 EST


>> My patches are based on the latest "linux-tip.git" tree and
>> also the following 3 commits in "tip:tracing/mm" and a "pagecache
>> object collections" patch.
>>
>> - dcac8cd: tracing/mm: add page frame snapshot trace
>> - 1487a7a: tracing/mm: fix mapcount trace record field
>> - eb46710: tracing/mm: rename 'trigger' file to 'dump_range'
>> - http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/9/156
>>
>> Any comments are welcome.
>
> I totally like the approach you have taken here.
>
> Note that tracepoints need a detailed, careful review from interested
> mm folks.
>
> The set of tracepoints does not have to be complete but the
> tracepoints have to be well thought out and near-perfect in this
> context they are instrumenting, with an eye on future extensions with
> the goal of making them painless.
>
> the pagecache tracepoints you have added are:
>
> include/trace/events/filemap.h | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> mm/filemap.c | 4 ++
> mm/truncate.c | 2 +
> mm/vmscan.c | 2 +
> 4 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> So once such kind of review has been iterated through and Andrew et
> al is happy with it i'd be more than happy to dust off the tracing/mm
> bits (which have been done two years ago) and get it all to Linus.
>
> Andrew, Mel, Fengguang?

Thank you for your comments.
And I agree the tracepoints need reviews from mm folks.
I think the patches in tracing/mm are useful for monitoring mm behavior.
Is there any comments for these patches(especially the tracepoints)?
Any comments are welcome.

Thanks,
Keiichi
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