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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] mm: introduce per-order mTHP split counters
On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 11:20 PM Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> wrote:
>
> On 24/04/2024 16:00, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > On 24.04.24 15:51, Lance Yang wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> At present, the split counters in THP statistics no longer include
> >> PTE-mapped mTHP. Therefore, we want to introduce per-order mTHP split
> >> counters to monitor the frequency of mTHP splits. This will assist
> >> developers in better analyzing and optimizing system performance.
> >>
> >> /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-<size>/stats
> >> split_page
> >> split_page_failed
> >> deferred_split_page
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Lance
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Lance Yang (2):
> >> mm: add per-order mTHP split counters
> >> mm: add docs for per-order mTHP split counters
> >>
> >> Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 16 ----------------
> >
> > We really have to start documenting these, and what the sementics are.
>
> I think the diffstat is backwards; the series definitely adds more lines than it

Good spot! I'll sort it out.

Thanks,
Lance

> removes. And patch 2 is adding 16 lines of docs, not removing them. How are you
> generating this? `git format-patch` should do it correctly for you.
>
> >
> > E.g., is split_page_failed contained in split_page? Is deferred_split_page
> > contained in split_page?
> >
> > But also: just don't call it "split_page". Drop the "_page".
> >
> > split
> > split_failed
> > split_deferred
>
> I guess we are back in "should we be consistent with the existing vmstats"
> territory, which uses split_page/split_page_failed/deferred_split_page
>
> But here, I agree that dropping _page is nicer.
>
> >
> > ?
> >
>

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