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Andrew Morton authored
A patch from Rik which adds some operational statitics to the VM. In /proc/meminfo: PageTables: Amount of memory used for process pagetables PteChainTot: Amount of memory allocated for pte_chain objects PteChainUsed: Amount of memory currently in use for pte chains. In /proc/stat: pageallocs: Number of pages allocated in the page allocator pagefrees: Number of pages returned to the page allocator (These can be used to measure the allocation rate) pageactiv: Number of pages activated (moved to the active list) pagedeact: Number of pages deactivated (moved to the inactive list) pagefault: Total pagefaults majorfault: Major pagefaults pagescan: Number of pages which shrink_cache looked at pagesteal: Number of pages which shrink_cache freed pageoutrun: Number of calls to try_to_free_pages() allocstall: Number of calls to balance_classzone() Rik will be writing a userspace app which interprets these things. The /proc/meminfo stats are efficient, but the /proc/stat accumulators will cause undesirable cacheline bouncing. We need to break the disk statistics out of struct kernel_stat and make everything else in there per-cpu. If that doesn't happen in time for 2.6 then we disable KERNEL_STAT_INC().
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