From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx107.postini.com [74.125.245.107]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D0D7E8D0001 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 20:32:29 -0500 (EST) From: Petr Holasek Subject: [PATCH v7 2/2] Documentation: add sysfs ABI documentation for ksm Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:32:17 +0100 Message-Id: <1356658337-12540-2-git-send-email-pholasek@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1356658337-12540-1-git-send-email-pholasek@redhat.com> References: <20121224050817.GA25749@kroah.com> <1356658337-12540-1-git-send-email-pholasek@redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Andrew Morton , Izik Eidus , Rik van Riel , David Rientjes , Sasha Levin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Anton Arapov , Petr Holasek This patch adds sysfs documentation for Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM) including new merge_across_nodes knob. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..44384ae --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm +Date: September 2009 +Contact: Linux memory management mailing list +Description: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm contains interface of Kernel Samepage + Merging (KSM) + +What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/full_scans +What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_shared +What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_sharing +What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_to_scan +What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_unshared +What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_volatile +What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run +What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/sleep_millisecs +Date: September 2009 +Contact: Linux memory management mailing list +Description: Kernel Samepage Merging daemon sysfs interface + + full_scans: how many times all mergeable areas have been + scanned. + + pages_shared: how many shared pages are being used. + + pages_sharing: how many more sites are sharing them i.e. how + much saved. + + pages_to_scan: how many present pages to scan before ksmd goes + to sleep. + + pages_unshared: how many pages unique but repeatedly checked + for merging. + + pages_volatile: how many pages changing too fast to be placed + in a tree. + + run: write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled. + write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running. + write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. + + sleep_millisecs: how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between + scans. + + See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information. + +What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes +Date: December 2012 +Contact: Linux memory management mailing list +Description: Control merging pages across different NUMA nodes. + + When it is set to 0 only pages from the same node are merged, + otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default). -- 1.7.11.7 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org