Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: add docs for per-order mTHP split counters

[Barry Song]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 1:09 AM Lance Yang <ioworker0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This commit introduces documentation for mTHP split counters in
> transhuge.rst.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mingzhe Yang <mingzhe.yang@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
> index 1f72b00af5d3..709fe10b60f4 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
> @@ -514,6 +514,22 @@ file_fallback_charge
>         falls back to using small pages even though the allocation was
>         successful.
>
> +split
> +       is incremented every time a huge page is successfully split into
> +       base pages. This can happen for a variety of reasons but a common
> +       reason is that a huge page is old and is being reclaimed.
> +       This action implies splitting any block mappings into PTEs.
> +
> +split_failed
> +       is incremented if kernel fails to split huge
> +       page. This can happen if the page was pinned by somebody.
> +
> +split_deferred
> +       is incremented when a huge page is put onto split
> +       queue. This happens when a huge page is partially unmapped and
> +       splitting it would free up some memory. Pages on split queue are
> +       going to be split under memory pressure.
> +
>  As the system ages, allocating huge pages may be expensive as the
>  system uses memory compaction to copy data around memory to free a
>  huge page for use. There are some counters in ``/proc/vmstat`` to help
> --
> 2.45.2
>