Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/6] count transparent hugepage splits

[Johannes Weiner]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 04:33:58PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 
> The khugepaged process collapses transparent hugepages for us.  Whenever
> it collapses a page into a transparent hugepage, we increment a nice
> global counter exported in sysfs:
> 
> 	/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/pages_collapsed
> 
> But, transparent hugepages also get broken down in quite a few
> places in the kernel.  We do not have a good idea how how many of
> those collpased pages are "new" versus how many are just fixing up
> spots that got split a moment before.
> 
> Note: "splits" and "collapses" are opposites in this context.
> 
> This patch adds a new sysfs file:
> 
> 	/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/pages_split
> 
> It is global, like "pages_collapsed", and is incremented whenever any
> transparent hugepage on the system has been broken down in to normal
> PAGE_SIZE base pages.  This way, we can get an idea how well khugepaged
> is keeping up collapsing pages that have been split.
> 
> I put it under /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/ instead of the
> khugepaged/ directory since it is not strictly related to
> khugepaged; it can get incremented on pages other than those
> collapsed by khugepaged.
> 
> The variable storing this is a plain integer.  I needs the same
> amount of locking that 'khugepaged_pages_collapsed' has, for
> instance.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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