linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm, migrate: count pages failing all retries in vmstat and tracepoint

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Message-ID: <55DF82AC.8010907@suse.cz>
Date:	Thu, 27 Aug 2015 23:35:40 +0200
From:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, migrate: count pages failing all retries in vmstat
 and tracepoint

On 27.8.2015 23:02, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Aug 2015, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> 
>> Migration tries up to 10 times to migrate pages that return -EAGAIN until it
>> gives up. If some pages fail all retries, they are counted towards the number
>> of failed pages that migrate_pages() returns. They should also be counted in
>> the /proc/vmstat pgmigrate_fail and in the mm_migrate_pages tracepoint.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> 
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>

Thanks.

> I assume nothing else other than stats and tracepoints are affected by 
> this and this isn't a critical bugfix :)

Yep, no stable needed :)

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