linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] ext4: track extent status tree shrinker delay statictics

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Message-ID: <20140904154925.GF4047@thunk.org>
Date:	Thu, 4 Sep 2014 11:49:25 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@...bao.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] ext4: track extent status tree shrinker delay
 statictics

On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 08:10:48PM +0800, Zheng Liu wrote:
> >   When reading through this again, I realized that we probably don't want
> > this file in /proc/fs/ext4 but rather in /sys/kernel/debug/ext4 because
> > it's really a debugging interface and we don't want any tools to start
> > using it.
> 
> Fair enough.  I will fix it in next version.

I was actually OK with leaving it in /proc, since we have a number of
other debugging files in /proc/fs/ext4/<dev> already, and I'm not sure
spreading ext4's foot print so that we have some files in /proc, some
in /sys, and some in debugfs is worth decreasing the possibility that
some tool would start depending on the contents of that file --- I
can't really imagine why non-fs developers would ever care about such
statistics.

I probably *would* be in favor of creating a new config option which
disables /proc/fs/ext4/<dev>/mballoc_groups and
/proc/fs/ext4/<dev>/es_shrinker_info, to help with the people who care
shrinking the total footprint of the Linux kernel for embedded
application (kernel tinification), though.

						- Ted
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