linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/10] mm/vmscan: add page demotion counter

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Message-ID: <CAAPL-u-tJDpjW0DvYNUajM7tOCPBs95ijzGO3330cKbfqpf9Cw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 9 Apr 2021 20:40:29 -0700
From:   Wei Xu <weixugc@...gle.com>
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/10] mm/vmscan: add page demotion counter

On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 11:35 AM Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
>
> Account the number of demoted pages into reclaim_state->nr_demoted.
>
> Add pgdemote_kswapd and pgdemote_direct VM counters showed in
> /proc/vmstat.
>
> [ daveh:
>    - __count_vm_events() a bit, and made them look at the THP
>      size directly rather than getting data from migrate_pages()
> ]
>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>
> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@...gle.com>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
> Cc: osalvador <osalvador@...e.de>

These counters can be more useful if they are per-node.

Reviewed-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@...gle.com>