linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] vmscan: don't export nr_saved

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Date:	Tue, 5 May 2009 11:43:58 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	lee.schermerhorn@...com, riel@...hat.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, npiggin@...e.de
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] vmscan: don't export nr_saved_scan in
 /proc/zoneinfo

On Tue, 5 May 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > /proc/zoneinfo is unsalvageable :( Shifting future work over to
> > /sys/devices/system/node/nodeN/meminfo and deprecating /proc/zoneinfo
> > sounds good to me.
>
> If only one could find things put in sysfs :-)

Write a "zoneinfo" command line tool to show this information? If we
cannot output large texts via /proc or /sys then we need small tools for
all sorts of statistics.

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