linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] Add some trace events for the page allocator v6

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Message-ID: <20090810185633.GA1130@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:56:33 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Cc:	Larry Woodman <lwoodman@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, riel@...hat.com,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Li Ming Chun <macli@....ubc.ca>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Add some trace events for the page allocator v6


* Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie> wrote:

> This is V6 of a patchset to add some tracepoints of interest when analysing
> the page allocator. The only changes since the last revision were to fix a
> minor error in the post-processing script and to add a reviewed-by to one
> of the patches.
> 
> Can we get a yey/nay on whether these should be merged or not?

It's up to Andrew - from an instrumentation POV it all looks fine to 
me:

   Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>

With the highlight of the patchset being the very low cross section 
it has to regular MM code/hacking:

>  mm/page_alloc.c                                    |   13 +-

	Ingo
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