From f3dbd34460ff54962d3e3244b6bcb7f5295356e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Lameter Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 01:55:36 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] zoned vm counters: split NR_ANON_PAGES off from NR_FILE_MAPPED The current NR_FILE_MAPPED is used by zone reclaim and the dirty load calculation as the number of mapped pagecache pages. However, that is not true. NR_FILE_MAPPED includes the mapped anonymous pages. This patch separates those and therefore allows an accurate tracking of the anonymous pages per zone. It then becomes possible to determine the number of unmapped pages per zone and we can avoid scanning for unmapped pages if there are none. Also it may now be possible to determine the mapped/unmapped ratio in get_dirty_limit. Isnt the number of anonymous pages irrelevant in that calculation? Note that this will change the meaning of the number of mapped pages reported in /proc/vmstat /proc/meminfo and in the per node statistics. This may affect user space tools that monitor these counters! NR_FILE_MAPPED works like NR_FILE_DIRTY. It is only valid for pagecache pages. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/mmzone.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 08be91e6cec..4833abd4458 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ struct zone_padding { #endif enum zone_stat_item { - NR_FILE_MAPPED, /* mapped into pagetables. + NR_ANON_PAGES, /* Mapped anonymous pages */ + NR_FILE_MAPPED, /* pagecache pages mapped into pagetables. only modified from process context */ NR_FILE_PAGES, NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS }; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2