Re: [PATCH] mm: bump PGSTEAL*/PGSCAN*/ALLOCSTALL counters in memcg reclaim

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue May 30 2017 - 09:45:07 EST


On Tue 30-05-17 14:21:14, Roman Gushchin wrote:
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> But what about PGSTEAL*/PGSCAN* counters, isn't it better to make them
> reflect __all__ reclaim activity, no matter what was a root cause?

What would be the advantage? Those counters have always been global and
we should better have a strong reason to change that.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs