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| author | Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> | 2022-10-26 14:01:33 -0400 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-11-30 15:58:41 -0800 |
| commit | 57e9cc50f4dd926d6c38751799d25cad89fb2bd9 (patch) | |
| tree | 35b891caefd466c2c7f976a2f56d6485d1a44013 /Documentation/admin-guide | |
| parent | 1b0166387586cae69d7da783f0a4521864534aad (diff) | |
| download | linux-57e9cc50f4dd926d6c38751799d25cad89fb2bd9.tar.bz2 | |
mm: vmscan: split khugepaged stats from direct reclaim stats
Direct reclaim stats are useful for identifying a potential source for
application latency, as well as spotting issues with kswapd. However,
khugepaged currently distorts the picture: as a kernel thread it doesn't
impose allocation latencies on userspace, and it explicitly opts out of
kswapd reclaim. Its activity showing up in the direct reclaim stats is
misleading. Counting it as kswapd reclaim could also cause confusion when
trying to understand actual kswapd behavior.
Break out khugepaged from the direct reclaim counters into new
pgsteal_khugepaged, pgdemote_khugepaged, pgscan_khugepaged counters.
Test with a huge executable (CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS):
pgsteal_kswapd 1342185
pgsteal_direct 0
pgsteal_khugepaged 3623
pgscan_kswapd 1345025
pgscan_direct 0
pgscan_khugepaged 3623
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221026180133.377671-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: Eric Bergen <ebergen@meta.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst index dc254a3cb956..74cec76be9f2 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst @@ -1488,12 +1488,18 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back. pgscan_direct (npn) Amount of scanned pages directly (in an inactive LRU list) + pgscan_khugepaged (npn) + Amount of scanned pages by khugepaged (in an inactive LRU list) + pgsteal_kswapd (npn) Amount of reclaimed pages by kswapd pgsteal_direct (npn) Amount of reclaimed pages directly + pgsteal_khugepaged (npn) + Amount of reclaimed pages by khugepaged + pgfault (npn) Total number of page faults incurred |