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Date:   Wed, 18 Jan 2023 10:11:46 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To:     Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
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        linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
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        SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm: add vmstat statistics for madvise_[cold|pageout]
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On Tue 17-01-23 15:16:32, Minchan Kim wrote:
> madvise LRU manipulation APIs need to scan address ranges to find
> present pages at page table and provides advice hints for them.
> 
> Likewise pg[scan/steal] count on vmstat, madvise_pg[scanned/hinted]
> shows the proactive reclaim efficiency so this patch addes those
> two statistics in vmstat.

Please describe the usecase for those new counters.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs