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Message-Id: <20090804112246.4e6d0ab1.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 11:22:46 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@...hat.com>, riel@...hat.com,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] tracing, page-allocator: Add a postprocessing
script for page-allocator-related ftrace events
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 19:12:26 +0100 Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie> wrote:
> This patch adds a simple post-processing script for the page-allocator-related
> trace events. It can be used to give an indication of who the most
> allocator-intensive processes are and how often the zone lock was taken
> during the tracing period. Example output looks like
>
> find-2840
> o pages allocd = 1877
> o pages allocd under lock = 1817
> o pages freed directly = 9
> o pcpu refills = 1078
> o migrate fallbacks = 48
> - fragmentation causing = 48
> - severe = 46
> - moderate = 2
> - changed migratetype = 7
The usual way of accumulating and presenting such measurements is via
/proc/vmstat. How do we justify adding a completely new and different
way of doing something which we already do?
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