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From: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
To: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com>,
	corbet@lwn.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,  rafael@kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mike.kravetz@oracle.com,
	 muchun.song@linux.dev, rppt@kernel.org, david@redhat.com,
	 rdunlap@infradead.org, chenlinxuan@uniontech.com,
	yang.yang29@zte.com.cn,  tomas.mudrunka@gmail.com,
	bhelgaas@google.com, ivan@cloudflare.com,  yosryahmed@google.com,
	hannes@cmpxchg.org, shakeelb@google.com,
	 kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com,
	 adobriyan@gmail.com, vbabka@suse.cz, Liam.Howlett@oracle.com,
	 surenb@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org,  willy@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/1] mm: report per-page metadata information
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 18:37:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+CK2bAqdFL-kGmTR8msdy_FSr4Zt7+riJgjdTxX+FN+-M0pLA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAPL-u-0RekH-ptg9U2pzPJxCAR+jMTxKTZU49LR_isjNkSPWg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 1:12 PM Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 1:46 PM Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > Adds two new per-node fields, namely nr_memmap and nr_memmap_boot,
> > to /sys/devices/system/node/nodeN/vmstat and a global Memmap field
> > to /proc/meminfo. This information can be used by users to see how
> > much memory is being used by per-page metadata, which can vary
> > depending on build configuration, machine architecture, and system
> > use.
>
> /proc/vmstat also has the system-wide nr_memmap and nr_memmap_boot.
> Given that nr_memmap in /proc/vmstat provides the same info (in
> different units) as Memmap in /proc/meminfo, it would be better to
> remove Memmap from /proc/meminfo to avoid duplication and confusion.

There are many items both in meminfo and in vmstat. Given that
/proc/meminfo covers all kmem memory, it is beneficial to keep the
kmem part of memmap in meminfo as another classification item.

Pasha


  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-13 22:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-20 21:45 [PATCH v9 0/1] " Sourav Panda
2024-02-20 21:45 ` [PATCH v9 1/1] " Sourav Panda
2024-02-26 18:12   ` Wei Xu
2024-03-13 22:37     ` Pasha Tatashin [this message]
2024-03-13 22:40   ` Pasha Tatashin
2024-03-19 14:25     ` Pasha Tatashin
2024-03-19 21:33   ` Andrew Morton
2024-04-10 23:58     ` David Rientjes
2024-04-11  5:42       ` Sourav Panda
2024-04-12 17:04     ` Pasha Tatashin

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