linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: add NR

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Message-ID: <20160603080141.GA490@swordfish>
Date:	Fri, 3 Jun 2016 17:01:41 +0900
From:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Sangseok Lee <sangseok.lee@....com>,
	Chanho Min <chanho.min@....com>,
	Chan Gyun Jeong <chan.jeong@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: add NR_ZSMALLOC to vmstat

On (06/03/16 11:08), Minchan Kim wrote:
> Now, zram is very popular for some of embedded world(e.g., TV, mobile
> phone). On those system, zsmalloc consumed memory size is never trivial
> (one of example from real product system, total memory: 800M, zsmalloc
> consumed: 150M), so we have used this out of tree patch to monitor system
> memory behavior via /proc/vmstat.
> 
> With zsmalloc in vmstat, it helps tracking down system behavior by
> memory usage.

Hello,

may be use zsmalloc stats file instead? as far as I know, you keep
zsmalloc stats enabled in production anyway.

	-ss