linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vmscan/trace: Add 'active' and 'file' info to trace_mm_vmscan_lru

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Date:	Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:39:22 +0800
From:	Tao Ma <tm@....ma>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>
CC:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmscan/trace: Add 'active' and 'file' info to trace_mm_vmscan_lru_isolate.

On 12/11/2011 12:29 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> (12/10/11 11:10 AM), Tao Ma wrote:
>> From: Tao Ma<boyu.mt@...bao.com>
>>
>> In trace_mm_vmscan_lru_isolate, we don't output 'active' and 'file'
>> information to the trace event and it is a bit inconvenient for the
>> user to get the real information(like pasted below).
>> mm_vmscan_lru_isolate: isolate_mode=2 order=0 nr_requested=32 nr_scanned=32
>> nr_taken=32 contig_taken=0 contig_dirty=0 contig_failed=0
>>
>> So this patch adds these 2 info to the trace event and it now looks like:
>> mm_vmscan_lru_isolate: isolate_mode=2 order=0 nr_requested=32 nr_scanned=32
>> nr_taken=32 contig_taken=0 contig_dirty=0 contig_failed=0 lru=1,0
> 
> addition is ok to me. but lru=1,0 is not human readable. I suspect
> people will easily forget which value is active.
Sure, I can change it to something like "active=1,file=0".
Maybe I am too worried about the memory used.
So if there is no objection, I will change it.

Thanks
Tao
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