Re: [PATCH v5 8/8] mm: add vmstat counters for tracking PCP drains

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jan 03 2012 - 18:00:06 EST


On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 21:00:17 +0200
Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > NAK.
> >
> > PCP_GLOBAL_IPI_SAVED is only useful at development phase. I can't
> > imagine normal admins use it.
>
> As the description explains, the purpose of the patch is to show why i
> claim the previous
> patch is useful. I did not meant it to be applied to mainline.

Right.

The thing to do is to use this patch to determine the effectiveness of
the preceding patchset and then present a summary of the results in the
other patch's changelog. This is precisely what you did and the
results look pretty good.


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