Re: quicklists confuse meminfo

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sun Mar 09 2008 - 08:00:48 EST


On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> Hi
>
> in general, I like this patch and I think this is very useful.
> but I don't like #ifdef ;)

/me neither :)

> > +#ifdef CONFIG_QUICKLIST
> > + "QuickLists: %8lu kB\n"
> > +#endif
> > + ,K(i.totalram),
> > K(i.freeram),
> > K(i.bufferram),
> > K(cached),
> > @@ -215,6 +220,9 @@ static int meminfo_read_proc(char *page,
> > (unsigned long)VMALLOC_TOTAL >> 10,
> > vmi.used >> 10,
> > vmi.largest_chunk >> 10
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_QUICKLIST
> > + ,K(quicklist_total_size())
> > +#endif
>
> Do you dislike my following patch?

I like it. I'm just not sure about the accounting of cached memory in
general, though quicklists seem to be a pretty obvious one.

Thanks,

tglx


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