linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/14] vmscan: add shrink

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Message-ID: <20110711095708.GB19354@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 11 Jul 2011 05:57:08 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/14] vmscan: add shrink_slab tracepoints

On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 02:14:34PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>
> 
> ??t is impossible to understand what the shrinkers are actually doing
> without instrumenting the code, so add a some tracepoints to allow
> insight to be gained.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>

Looks good.  But wouldn't it be a good idea to give the shrinkers names
so that we can pretty print those in the trace event?

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