Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update numastat explanation

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Fri May 15 2020 - 13:37:19 EST


On Thu, 7 May 2020 14:02:17 +0200
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> During recent patch discussion [1] it became apparent that the "other_node"
> definition in the numastat documentation has always been different from actual
> implementation. It was also noted that the stats can be innacurate on systems
> with memoryless nodes.
>
> This patch corrects the other_node definition (with minor tweaks to two more
> definitions), adds a note about memoryless nodes and also two introductory
> paragraphs to the numastat documentation.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200504070304.127361-1-sandipan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u
>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/numastat.rst | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

jon