[PATCH v8 8/8] mm: Document the newly added sysfs large folios zswpout stats.
From: Kanchana P Sridhar
Date: Fri Sep 27 2024 - 22:17:37 EST
Added documentation for the newly added sysfs per-order hugepage
"zswpout" stats.
Clarified that only non-zswap swapouts will be accounted in the existing
"swpout" stats.
Signed-off-by: Kanchana P Sridhar <kanchana.p.sridhar@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
index cfdd16a52e39..2a171ed5206e 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
@@ -530,10 +530,14 @@ anon_fault_fallback_charge
instead falls back to using huge pages with lower orders or
small pages even though the allocation was successful.
-swpout
- is incremented every time a huge page is swapped out in one
+zswpout
+ is incremented every time a huge page is swapped out to zswap in one
piece without splitting.
+swpout
+ is incremented every time a huge page is swapped out to a non-zswap
+ swap device in one piece without splitting.
+
swpout_fallback
is incremented if a huge page has to be split before swapout.
Usually because failed to allocate some continuous swap space
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