Re: [PATCHv3, RFC 09/34] thp: represent file thp pages in meminfo andfriends

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Tue Apr 16 2013 - 10:47:22 EST


Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 04/05/2013 04:59 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > The patch adds new zone stat to count file transparent huge pages and
> > adjust related places.
> >
> > For now we don't count mapped or dirty file thp pages separately.
>
> I can understand tracking NR_FILE_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGES itself. But,
> why not also account for them in NR_FILE_PAGES? That way, you don't
> have to special-case each of the cases below:

Good point.
To be consistent I'll also convert NR_ANON_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGES to be
accounted in NR_ANON_PAGES.

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Kirill A. Shutemov
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