From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f46.google.com (mail-pa0-f46.google.com [209.85.220.46]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8960A6B0005 for ; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 01:02:50 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pa0-f46.google.com with SMTP id bj10so16766463pad.2 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 22:02:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from lgeamrelo12.lge.com (LGEAMRELO12.lge.com. [156.147.23.52]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id n17si40596574pfa.4.2016.02.28.22.02.49 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 22:02:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:02:47 +0900 From: Minchan Kim Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/zsmalloc: add compact column to pool stat Message-ID: <20160229060247.GA3382@bbox> References: <1456554233-9088-1-git-send-email-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1456554233-9088-1-git-send-email-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sergey Senozhatsky On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 03:23:53PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > Add a new column to pool stats, which will tell us class' zs_can_compact() > number, so it will be easier to analyze zsmalloc fragmentation. Just nitpick: Strictly speaking, zs_can_compact number is number of "ideal freeable page by compaction". How about using high level term in description rather than function name? > > At the moment, we have only numbers of FULL and ALMOST_EMPTY classes, but > they don't tell us how badly the class is fragmented internally. > > The new /sys/kernel/debug/zsmalloc/zramX/classes output look as follows: > > class size almost_full almost_empty obj_allocated obj_used pages_used pages_per_zspage compact > [..] > 12 224 0 2 146 5 8 4 4 > 13 240 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 > 14 256 1 13 1840 1672 115 1 10 > 15 272 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 > [..] > 49 816 0 3 745 735 149 1 2 > 51 848 3 4 361 306 76 4 8 > 52 864 12 14 378 268 81 3 21 > 54 896 1 12 117 57 26 2 12 > 57 944 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 > [..] > Total 26 131 12709 10994 1071 134 > > For example, from this particular output we can easily conclude that class-896 > is heavily fragmented -- it occupies 26 pages, 12 can be freed by compaction. How about using "freeable" or something which could represent "freeable"? IMO, it's more strightforward for user. Other than that, Acked-by: Minchan Kim Thanks for the nice job! -- 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