Re: [PATCH v5 5/7] zsmalloc/zram: store compaction stats in zspool

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Mon Jul 06 2015 - 09:57:38 EST


On (07/06/15 22:27), Minchan Kim wrote:
> > `zs_compact_control' accounts the number of migrated objects but
> > it has a limited lifespan -- we lose it as soon as zs_compaction()
> > returns back to zram. It was fine, because (a) zram had it's own
> > counter of migrated objects and (b) only zram could trigger
> > compaction. However, this does not work for automatic pool
> > compaction (not issued by zram). To account objects migrated
> > during auto-compaction (issued by the shrinker) we need to store
> > this number in zs_pool.
> >
> > A new zsmalloc zs_get_num_migrated() symbol exports zs_pool's
> > ->num_migrated counter, so we better start using it, rather than
> > continue keeping zram's own `num_migrated' copy in zram_stats.
>
> If we introduce like this API we should make new another API when
> we want to introduce new stats. So I don't think it's a good idea.
> How about this?
>
> void zsmalloc_stats(struct zsmalloc_stats *stats);
>
> So, we could return any upcoming stats without new API introduce.
>

Hm, agree. Do you prefer me to fold this into this patch set or to do as
a separate work later?


P.S.

Sorry. Seems that my git send-email has some problems, so group-reply
in mutt does not work as expected.


-ss
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