Thank you David Hildenbrand for reviewing this patch. On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 6:00 AM David Hildenbrand wrote: > On 13.09.23 19:30, Sourav Panda wrote: > > Adds a new per-node PageMetadata field to > > /sys/devices/system/node/nodeN/meminfo > > and a global PageMetadata 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. > > > > Per-page metadata is the amount of memory that Linux needs in order to > > manage memory at the page granularity. The majority of such memory is > > used by "struct page" and "page_ext" data structures. > > It's probably worth mentioning, that in contrast to most other "memory > consumption" statistics, this metadata might not be included "MemTotal"; > when the memmap is allocated using the memblock allocator, it's not > included, when it's dynamically allocated using the buddy (e.g., memory > hotplug), it's included. > > Thank you for your comment, Completely agree with you and shall make this change.