From: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Subject: [PATCH -mm] mm, THP, doc: Add document for thp_swpout/thp_swpout_fallback
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 16:23:41 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180509082341.13953-1-ying.huang@intel.com> (raw)
From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Add document for newly added thp_swpout, thp_swpout_fallback fields in
/proc/vmstat.
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
---
Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst
index 569d182cc973..2c6867fca6ff 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst
+++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst
@@ -355,6 +355,15 @@ thp_zero_page_alloc_failed
is incremented if kernel fails to allocate
huge zero page and falls back to using small pages.
+thp_swpout
+ is incremented every time a huge page is swapout in one
+ piece without splitting.
+
+thp_swpout_fallback
+ is incremented if a huge page has to be split before swapout.
+ Usually because failed to allocate some continuous swap space
+ for the huge page.
+
As the system ages, allocating huge pages may be expensive as the
system uses memory compaction to copy data around memory to free a
huge page for use. There are some counters in ``/proc/vmstat`` to help
--
2.16.1
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2018-05-10 20:06 ` [PATCH -mm] mm, THP, doc: Add document for thp_swpout/thp_swpout_fallback Jonathan Corbet
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