linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/9] kstaled: documentation and config option.

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Message-Id: <20110928155302.ca394980.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:53:02 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Michael Wolf <mjwolf@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] kstaled: documentation and config option.

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:49:00 -0700
Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com> wrote:

> Extend memory cgroup documentation do describe the optional idle page
> tracking features, and add the corresponding configuration option.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>

> +* idle_2_clean, idle_2_dirty_file, idle_2_dirty_swap: same definitions as
> +  above, but for pages that have been untouched for at least two scan cycles.
> +* these fields repeat up to idle_240_clean, idle_240_dirty_file and
> +  idle_240_dirty_swap, allowing one to observe idle pages over a variety
> +  of idle interval lengths. Note that the accounting is cumulative:
> +  pages counted as idle for a given interval length are also counted
> +  as idle for smaller interval lengths.

I'm sorry if you've answered already.

Why 240 ? and above means we have idle_xxx_clean/dirty/ xxx is 'seq 2 240' ?
Isn't it messy ? Anyway, idle_1_clean etc should be provided.

Hmm, I don't like the idea very much...

IIUC, there is no kernel interface which shows histgram rather than load_avg[].
Is there any other interface and what histgram is provided ?
And why histgram by kernel is required ? 

BTW, can't this information be exported by /proc/<pid>/smaps or somewhere ?
I guess per-proc will be wanted finally. 


Hm, do you use params other than idle_clean for your scheduling ?

Thanks,
-Kame

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