Re: [PATCH 3/3 v3] mm/vmalloc: Cache the vmalloc memory info

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm not convinced anybody actually uses those values, and they are
> getting *less* relevant rather than more (on 64-bit, those values
> really don't matter, since the vmalloc space isn't really a
> limitation)

Side note: the people who actually care about "my vmalloc area is too
full, what's up?" would use /proc/vmallocinfo anyway, since that's
what shows things like fragmentation etc.

So I'm just talking about removing the /proc/meminfo part. First try
to remove it *all*, and if there is some script that hollers because
it wants to parse them, print out the values as zero.

                 Linus
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