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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCHSET 0/6] perf kmem: Implement page allocation analysis (v1)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:54:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150312155422.GA9779@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150312145837.GA1398@danjae>


* Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> wrote:

> > I.e. something like this (mockup) output:
> > 
> >    SUMMARY (page allocator)
> >    ========================
> > 
> >    Pages allocated+freed:       12,593   [     51,630,080 bytes ]
> > 
> >    Pages allocated-only:         2,342   [      1,235,010 bytes ]
> >    Pages freed-only:                67   [        135,311 bytes ]
> > 
> >    Page allocation failures :        0
> 
> Looks a lot better!
> 
> One thing I need to tell you is that the numbers are not pages but 
> requests.

Yes, but in the MM code we tend to call larger order allocations 
'pages' as well: higher order pages, such as a 2MB hugepage, or a 8K 
order-1 page. So at least in MM-speak it should be OK to call them 
'pages'.

But your call!

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-12 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-12  7:32 [RFC/PATCHSET 0/6] perf kmem: Implement page allocation analysis (v1) Namhyung Kim
2015-03-12  7:32 ` [PATCH 1/6] perf kmem: Fix segfault when invalid sort key is given Namhyung Kim
2015-03-14  7:06   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Namhyung Kim
2015-03-12  7:32 ` [PATCH 2/6] perf kmem: Allow -v option Namhyung Kim
2015-03-14  7:06   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Namhyung Kim
2015-03-12  7:32 ` [PATCH 3/6] perf kmem: Fix alignment of slab result table Namhyung Kim
2015-03-14  7:07   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Namhyung Kim
2015-03-12  7:32 ` [PATCH 4/6] perf kmem: Analyze page allocator events also Namhyung Kim
2015-03-12 11:01   ` Jiri Olsa
2015-03-12 15:11     ` Namhyung Kim
2015-03-12  7:32 ` [PATCH 5/6] perf kmem: Implement stat --page --caller Namhyung Kim
2015-03-12  7:32 ` [PATCH 6/6] perf kmem: Support sort keys on page analysis Namhyung Kim
2015-03-12 10:41 ` [RFC/PATCHSET 0/6] perf kmem: Implement page allocation analysis (v1) Ingo Molnar
2015-03-12 14:58   ` Namhyung Kim
2015-03-12 15:54     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2015-03-13  8:19       ` Namhyung Kim
2015-03-13 12:44         ` Ingo Molnar
2015-03-16  2:06           ` Namhyung Kim
2015-03-16  2:10     ` Namhyung Kim
2015-03-16  8:26       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-03-16  8:35         ` Namhyung Kim
2015-03-16  8:43           ` Ingo Molnar
2015-03-12 19:07   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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