From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] add buffer cache information to show_free_areas()
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
       David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
       Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
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> On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> 
> > Subject: [PATCH] add buffer cache information to show_free_areas()
> >
> > When administrator analysis memory shortage reason from OOM log, They
> > often need to know rest number of cache like pages.
> 
> Maybe:
> 
> "
> It is often useful to know the statistics for all pages that are handled
> like page cache pages when looking at OOM log output.
> 
> Therefore show_free_areas() should also display buffer cache statistics.
> "

Thanks good description. Will fix.


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