[PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_slab to per zone counter

- Allows reclaim to access counter without looping over processor counts.

- Allows accurate statistics on how many pages are used in a zone by
  the slab. This may become useful to balance slab allocations over
  various zones.

[akpm@osdl.org: bugfix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This commit is contained in:
Christoph Lameter
2006-06-30 01:55:38 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 34aa1330f9
commit 9a865ffa34
9 changed files with 10 additions and 12 deletions

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@@ -1362,7 +1362,7 @@ unsigned long shrink_all_memory(unsigned long nr_pages)
for_each_zone(zone)
lru_pages += zone->nr_active + zone->nr_inactive;
nr_slab = read_page_state(nr_slab);
nr_slab = global_page_state(NR_SLAB);
/* If slab caches are huge, it's better to hit them first */
while (nr_slab >= lru_pages) {
reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab = 0;