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| author | xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> | 2023-06-13 11:09:42 +0800 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2023-08-18 10:12:10 -0700 |
| commit | 1a8e84305783bddbae708f28178c6d0aa6321913 (patch) | |
| tree | 17b13c3f2ff6b91b3ee2d494d1a9646fc518972d /Documentation/admin-guide | |
| parent | 6080d19f07043ade61094d0f58b14c05e1694a39 (diff) | |
ksm: consider KSM-placed zeropages when calculating KSM profit
When use_zero_pages is enabled, the calculation of ksm profit is not
correct because ksm zero pages is not counted in. So update the
calculation of KSM profit including the documentation.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230613030942.186041-1-yang.yang29@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiaokai Ran <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Jiang Xuexin <jiang.xuexin@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst | 18 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst index 6cc919dbfd55..5c5be7bd84b8 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst @@ -203,21 +203,25 @@ several times, which are unprofitable memory consumed. 1) How to determine whether KSM save memory or consume memory in system-wide range? Here is a simple approximate calculation for reference:: - general_profit =~ pages_sharing * sizeof(page) - (all_rmap_items) * + general_profit =~ ksm_saved_pages * sizeof(page) - (all_rmap_items) * sizeof(rmap_item); - where all_rmap_items can be easily obtained by summing ``pages_sharing``, - ``pages_shared``, ``pages_unshared`` and ``pages_volatile``. + where ksm_saved_pages equals to the sum of ``pages_sharing`` + + ``ksm_zero_pages`` of the system, and all_rmap_items can be easily + obtained by summing ``pages_sharing``, ``pages_shared``, ``pages_unshared`` + and ``pages_volatile``. 2) The KSM profit inner a single process can be similarly obtained by the following approximate calculation:: - process_profit =~ ksm_merging_pages * sizeof(page) - + process_profit =~ ksm_saved_pages * sizeof(page) - ksm_rmap_items * sizeof(rmap_item). - where ksm_merging_pages is shown under the directory ``/proc/<pid>/``, - and ksm_rmap_items is shown in ``/proc/<pid>/ksm_stat``. The process profit - is also shown in ``/proc/<pid>/ksm_stat`` as ksm_process_profit. + where ksm_saved_pages equals to the sum of ``ksm_merging_pages`` and + ``ksm_zero_pages``, both of which are shown under the directory + ``/proc/<pid>/ksm_stat``, and ksm_rmap_items is also shown in + ``/proc/<pid>/ksm_stat``. The process profit is also shown in + ``/proc/<pid>/ksm_stat`` as ksm_process_profit. From the perspective of application, a high ratio of ``ksm_rmap_items`` to ``ksm_merging_pages`` means a bad madvise-applied policy, so developers or |