linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][for -mm] fix accounting in vmscan.c for memory controller

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Message-Id: <20071211142911.4b8091d2.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:29:11 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"yamamoto@...inux.co.jp" <yamamoto@...inux.co.jp>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"riel@...hat.com" <riel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][for -mm] fix accounting in vmscan.c for memory
 controller

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:44:36 +0530
Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Looks good to me.
> 
> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> TODO:
> 
> 1. Should we have vm_events for the memory controller as well?
>    May be in the longer term
> 

ALLOC_STALL is recoreded as failcnt, I think.
I think DIRECT can be accoutned easily.

But I'm not in hurry very much, because all reclaimation is DIRECT, now.
After we implement background reclaim, we should consider it.

Thanks,
-Kame

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