From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261483AbVFTHv1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 03:51:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261489AbVFTHv1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 03:51:27 -0400 Received: from smtp208.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.130.116]:52626 "HELO smtp208.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261483AbVFTHtF (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 03:49:05 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] stats for orphaned pages (-mm only) From: Nick Piggin To: Andrew Morton Cc: lkml , andrea@suse.de, mason@suse.de In-Reply-To: <20050620003647.283ba186.akpm@osdl.org> References: <1118978590.5261.4.camel@npiggin-nld.site> <1119252194.6240.22.camel@npiggin-nld.site> <1119252269.6240.25.camel@npiggin-nld.site> <20050620003647.283ba186.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:49:01 +1000 Message-Id: <1119253741.6240.35.camel@npiggin-nld.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 00:36 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > And this. > > > > ... > > > > [vm-orphaned-debug.patch text/x-patch (3472 bytes)] > > yup. Observing the chnages in these numbers across various workloads would > go a long way toward validating the need for some patch and toward > validating a particular patch's effectiveness too. I'll try getting some numbers shortly. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com