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| author | Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> | 2012-12-12 22:51:09 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-12-13 02:38:32 +0100 |
| commit | d8a8e1f0da3d29d7268b3300c96a059d63901b76 (patch) | |
| tree | 46bd195f1cf4fd66c87f7d16c6bf043ad7fda9ff /Documentation/vm | |
| parent | thp: implement refcounting for huge zero page (diff) | |
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thp, vmstat: implement HZP_ALLOC and HZP_ALLOC_FAILED events
hzp_alloc is incremented every time a huge zero page is successfully
allocated. It includes allocations which where dropped due
race with other allocation. Note, it doesn't count every map
of the huge zero page, only its allocation.
hzp_alloc_failed is incremented if kernel fails to allocate huge zero
page and falls back to using small pages.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt index 8f5b41db314c..60aeedd54615 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt @@ -197,6 +197,14 @@ thp_split is incremented every time a huge page is split into base pages. This can happen for a variety of reasons but a common reason is that a huge page is old and is being reclaimed. +thp_zero_page_alloc is incremented every time a huge zero page is + successfully allocated. It includes allocations which where + dropped due race with other allocation. Note, it doesn't count + every map of the huge zero page, only its allocation. + +thp_zero_page_alloc_failed is incremented if kernel fails to allocate + huge zero page and falls back to using small pages. + 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 |