[PATCH] vm: add per-zone writeout counter

The VM is supposed to minimise the number of pages which get written off the
LRU (for IO scheduling efficiency, and for high reclaim-success rates).  But
we don't actually have a clear way of showing how true this is.

So add `nr_vmscan_write' to /proc/vmstat and /proc/zoneinfo - the number of
pages which have been written by the vm scanner in this zone and globally.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

include/linux/mmzone.h

@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ enum zone_stat_item {
 	NR_WRITEBACK,
 	NR_UNSTABLE_NFS,	/* NFS unstable pages */
 	NR_BOUNCE,
+	NR_VMSCAN_WRITE,
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 	NUMA_HIT,		/* allocated in intended node */
 	NUMA_MISS,		/* allocated in non intended node */

mm/vmscan.c

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/highmem.h>
+#include <linux/vmstat.h>
 #include <linux/file.h>
 #include <linux/writeback.h>
 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
@@ -370,7 +371,7 @@ static pageout_t pageout(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
 			/* synchronous write or broken a_ops? */
 			ClearPageReclaim(page);
 		}
-
+		inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_VMSCAN_WRITE);
 		return PAGE_SUCCESS;
 	}
 

mm/vmstat.c

@@ -465,6 +465,7 @@ static char *vmstat_text[] = {
 	"nr_writeback",
 	"nr_unstable",
 	"nr_bounce",
+	"nr_vmscan_write",
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 	"numa_hit",