Re: [PATCH] mm: don't show nr_indirectly_reclaimable in /proc/vmstat

From: David Rientjes
Date: Wed Apr 25 2018 - 17:20:17 EST


On Wed, 25 Apr 2018, Roman Gushchin wrote:

> > > Don't show nr_indirectly_reclaimable in /proc/vmstat,
> > > because there is no need in exporting this vm counter
> > > to the userspace, and some changes are expected
> > > in reclaimable object accounting, which can alter
> > > this counter.
> > >
> >
> > I don't think it should be a per-node vmstat, in this case. It appears
> > only to be used for the global context. Shouldn't this be handled like
> > totalram_pages, total_swap_pages, totalreserve_pages, etc?
>
> Hi, David!
>
> I don't see any reasons why re-using existing infrastructure for
> fast vm counters is bad, and why should we re-invent it for this case.
>

Because now you have to modify the existing infrastructure for something
that shouldn't be a vmstat in the first place?