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From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: akataria@vmware.com
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Hugepages should be accounted as unevictable pages.
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:48:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1245800897.31856.28.camel@nimitz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1245799709.24110.70.camel@alok-dev1>

On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 16:28 -0700, Alok Kataria wrote:
> Now regarding the patch that I posted, I need a way to get the
> hugepages count, there are 2 ways of doing this. 
> 1. exporting hugetlb_total_pages function for module usage.

Unfortunately, that won't even be enough.  That only accounts for the
default hstate.  There may be several hstate if the system supports
multiple large page sizes.  It's all exported in sysfs, but I don't see
any simple way (other than sys_open()) for a module to get at it.

-- Dave

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-23 23:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-22 21:25 [PATCH] Hugepages should be accounted as unevictable pages Alok Kataria
2009-06-23  3:25 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-06-23  4:46   ` Alok Kataria
2009-06-23  5:05     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-06-23  5:11       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-06-23  5:54         ` Alok Kataria
2009-06-23  6:06           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-06-23 19:28             ` Alok Kataria
2009-06-23 20:30               ` Lee Schermerhorn
2009-06-23 21:24           ` Rik van Riel
2009-06-23 21:42             ` Alok Kataria
2009-06-23 21:55               ` Rik van Riel
2009-06-23 22:06                 ` Alok Kataria
2009-06-23 22:19                   ` Dave Hansen
2009-06-23 22:55                   ` Rik van Riel
2009-06-23 23:28                     ` Alok Kataria
2009-06-23 23:48                       ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2009-06-23 22:15               ` Dave Hansen
2009-06-23 22:23                 ` Alok Kataria
2009-06-23 23:41                   ` Dave Hansen
2009-06-24  0:08                     ` Alok Kataria
2009-06-23 12:26       ` Lee Schermerhorn
2009-06-29  9:58 ` Mel Gorman

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