From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754768Ab3I0NoO (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:44:14 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:55551 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753498Ab3I0N17 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:27:59 -0400 From: Mel Gorman To: Peter Zijlstra , Rik van Riel Cc: Srikar Dronamraju , Ingo Molnar , Andrea Arcangeli , Johannes Weiner , Linux-MM , LKML , Mel Gorman Subject: [PATCH 07/63] mm: Account for a THP NUMA hinting update as one PTE update Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 14:26:52 +0100 Message-Id: <1380288468-5551-8-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.4 In-Reply-To: <1380288468-5551-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> References: <1380288468-5551-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org A THP PMD update is accounted for as 512 pages updated in vmstat. This is large difference when estimating the cost of automatic NUMA balancing and can be misleading when comparing results that had collapsed versus split THP. This patch addresses the accounting issue. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman --- mm/mprotect.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c index 94722a4..2bbb648 100644 --- a/mm/mprotect.c +++ b/mm/mprotect.c @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, split_huge_page_pmd(vma, addr, pmd); else if (change_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr, newprot, prot_numa)) { - pages += HPAGE_PMD_NR; + pages++; continue; } /* fall through */ -- 1.8.1.4