From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754219AbbCMIU2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2015 04:20:28 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f41.google.com ([209.85.220.41]:36742 "EHLO mail-pa0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754176AbbCMIUO (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2015 04:20:14 -0400 Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:19:30 +0900 From: Namhyung Kim To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Peter Zijlstra , Jiri Olsa , LKML , David Ahern , Minchan Kim , Joonsoo Kim Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCHSET 0/6] perf kmem: Implement page allocation analysis (v1) Message-ID: <20150313081930.GA10836@danjae.skbroadband> References: <1426145571-3065-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org> <20150312104119.GA5978@gmail.com> <20150312145837.GA1398@danjae> <20150312155422.GA9779@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150312155422.GA9779@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Ingo, On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 04:54:22PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Namhyung Kim wrote: > > > > I.e. something like this (mockup) output: > > > > > > SUMMARY (page allocator) > > > ======================== > > > > > > Pages allocated+freed: 12,593 [ 51,630,080 bytes ] > > > > > > Pages allocated-only: 2,342 [ 1,235,010 bytes ] > > > Pages freed-only: 67 [ 135,311 bytes ] > > > > > > Page allocation failures : 0 > > > > Looks a lot better! > > > > One thing I need to tell you is that the numbers are not pages but > > requests. > > Yes, but in the MM code we tend to call larger order allocations > 'pages' as well: higher order pages, such as a 2MB hugepage, or a 8K > order-1 page. So at least in MM-speak it should be OK to call them > 'pages'. > > But your call! How about this? SUMMARY (page allocator) ======================== Total allocation requests : 9,015 [ 37,200 Kbytes ] (A) Total free requests : 8,093 [ 33,176 Kbytes ] (B) Total alloc+freed requests : 7,985 [ 32,732 Kbytes ] (C) Total alloc-only requests : 1,030 [ 4,468 Kbytes ] (D) Total free-only requests : 108 [ 444 Kbytes ] (E) Total allocation failure : 0 [ 0 Kbytes ] (A) = (C) + (D) (B) = (C) + (E) Thanks, Namhyung