[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>
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 839e9a0..67e03fc 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
NR_FILE_MAPPED, /* pagecache pages mapped into pagetables.
only modified from process context */
NR_FILE_PAGES,
+ NR_SLAB, /* Pages used by slab allocator */
NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS };
struct per_cpu_pages {
diff --git a/include/linux/vmstat.h b/include/linux/vmstat.h
index 8ab8229..4b97381 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmstat.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmstat.h
@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@
unsigned long nr_writeback; /* Pages under writeback */
unsigned long nr_unstable; /* NFS unstable pages */
unsigned long nr_page_table_pages;/* Pages used for pagetables */
- unsigned long nr_slab; /* In slab */
-#define GET_PAGE_STATE_LAST nr_slab
+#define GET_PAGE_STATE_LAST nr_page_table_pages
/*
* The below are zeroed by get_page_state(). Use get_full_page_state()