Re: [PATCH] shows Active/Inactive on per-node meminfo

[Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>]

On Friday, August 20, 2004 2:02 pm, mita akinobu wrote:
> +	for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) {
> +		*active += zones[i].nr_active;
> +		*inactive += zones[i].nr_inactive;
> +		*free += zones[i].free_pages;
> +	}
> +}
> +
> -		*free += zone->free_pages;
> +	for_each_pgdat(pgdat) {
> +		unsigned long l, m, n;
> +		__get_zone_counts(&l, &m, &n, pgdat);
> +		*active += l;
> +		*inactive += m;
> +		*free += n;
>  	}

Just FYI, loops like this are going to be very slow on a large machine.  
Iterating over every node in the system involves a TLB miss on every 
iteration along with an offnode reference and possibly cacheline demotion.

Jesse