Re: [PATCHv4 8/8] mm/vmstat: Add counter for memory accepting
From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Tue Apr 12 2022 - 05:37:27 EST
On 06.04.22 01:43, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> The counter increased every time kernel accepts a memory region.
>
> The counter allows to see if memory acceptation is still ongoing and
> contributes to memory allocation latency.
>
Does it? See my other mail, can't we have the counter essentially not
changing for a long time but still some unaccepted pages sitting at the
tail of the freelists that will only get allocated+accepted under real
memory pressure?
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Thanks,
David / dhildenb