Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] mm: Add hit/miss accounting for Page Cache

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Wed Mar 02 2011 - 12:02:25 EST


On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 09:45 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> But, instead of trying to improve those aspects of our existing instrumentation
> frameworks, mm/* is gradually growing its own special instrumentation hacks, missing
> the big picture and fragmenting the instrumentation space some more.
>
> That trend is somewhat sad.

Go any handy examples of how you'd like to see these done?

We're trying to add a batch of these for transparent huge pages, and
there was a similar set for KSM, so there's certainly no shortage of
potential sites.

-- Dave

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