On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Michal Hocko wrote: > > Don't show nr_indirectly_reclaimable in /proc/vmstat, > > because there is no need in exporting this vm counter > > to the userspace, and some changes are expected > > in reclaimable object accounting, which can alter > > this counter. > > > > Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]> > > Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> > > Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> > > Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> > > Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]> > > Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> > > Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> > > This is quite a hack. I would much rather revert the counter and fixed > it the way Vlastimil has proposed. But if there is a strong opposition > to the revert then this is probably the simples thing to do. Therefore >
Implementing this counter as a vmstat doesn't make much sense based on how it's used. Do you have a link to what Vlastimil proposed? I haven't seen mention of alternative ideas.
