Re: [RFC/PATCHSET 0/6] perf kmem: Implement page allocation analysis (v1)

[Ingo Molnar]

* Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
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