Re: [PATCH] mm: add NR_ZSMALLOC to vmstat

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Fri Jun 03 2016 - 06:24:42 EST


Hello,

On (06/03/16 17:23), Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 05:01:41PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > On (06/03/16 11:08), Minchan Kim wrote:
> > > Now, zram is very popular for some of embedded world(e.g., TV, mobile
> > > phone). On those system, zsmalloc consumed memory size is never trivial
> > > (one of example from real product system, total memory: 800M, zsmalloc
> > > consumed: 150M), so we have used this out of tree patch to monitor system
> > > memory behavior via /proc/vmstat.
> > >
> > > With zsmalloc in vmstat, it helps tracking down system behavior by
> > > memory usage.
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > may be use zsmalloc stats file instead? as far as I know, you keep
> > zsmalloc stats enabled in production anyway.
>
> It doesn't support per-zone stat which is important to show
> the fragmentation of the zone, for exmaple.

Ah, I see.

*just an idea*

may be zbud and z3fold folks will be interested as well, so may
be more generic name and define... um, my head doesn't work toay..
ZALLOC... ZPOOLALLOC... hm.. I think you got the idea.

-ss