From: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
To: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] docs/vm: remove unused 3 items explanation for /proc/vmstat
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 17:51:22 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1605520282-51993-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
Commit 5647bc293ab1 ("mm: compaction: Move migration fail/success
stats to migrate.c"), removed 3 items in /proc/vmstat. but the docs
still has their explanation. let's remove them.
"compact_blocks_moved",
"compact_pages_moved",
"compact_pagemigrate_failed",
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 15 ---------------
1 file changed, 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
index b2acd0d395ca..3b8a336511a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
@@ -401,21 +401,6 @@ compact_fail
is incremented if the system tries to compact memory
but failed.
-compact_pages_moved
- is incremented each time a page is moved. If
- this value is increasing rapidly, it implies that the system
- is copying a lot of data to satisfy the huge page allocation.
- It is possible that the cost of copying exceeds any savings
- from reduced TLB misses.
-
-compact_pagemigrate_failed
- is incremented when the underlying mechanism
- for moving a page failed.
-
-compact_blocks_moved
- is incremented each time memory compaction examines
- a huge page aligned range of pages.
-
It is possible to establish how long the stalls were using the function
tracer to record how long was spent in __alloc_pages_nodemask and
using the mm_page_alloc tracepoint to identify which allocations were
--
2.29.GIT
next reply other threads:[~2020-11-16 10:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-16 9:51 Alex Shi [this message]
2020-11-16 19:32 ` Zi Yan
2020-11-18 20:46 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-11-19 2:10 ` Alex Shi
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