From: "Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)" <kernel@pankajraghav.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, willy@infradead.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, da.gomez@kernel.org, mcgrof@kernel.org,
gost.dev@samsung.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: update THP admin guide about non-tmpfs filesystem support
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 20:21:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <midpuwlrt6tllgk2lpcntariyyt7msp7uyv32syfwne2p662yg@ux2zb7flcam3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <77b19486-28ca-47e1-b506-6de604f6ec0a@redhat.com>
> > in the examples below we presume that the basic page size is 4K and
> > @@ -463,6 +463,10 @@ fields for each mapping. (Note that AnonHugePages only applies to traditional
> > PMD-sized THP for historical reasons and should have been called
> > AnonHugePmdMapped).
> > +The number of PMD-sized transparent huge pages currently used by
> > +filesystem data (page cache) is available by reading the FileHugePages field
> > +in ``/proc/meminfo``.
> > +
>
> These changed look good. Do we also want to talk about FilePmdMapped?
> (PMD-sized THPs in the page cache that are mapped in to user space using a
> PMD ?)
I am a bit new to this subsystem, and it took some time to wrap around all
the different terminology used :)
But sure, I will add a new commit to talk about FilePmdMapped. I can
give it a shot with what I understand about FilePmdMapped, but please feel
free to add your input.
>
> Do we have to distinguish it from below? (shmem also uses the page cache)
>
> > The number of file transparent huge pages mapped to userspace is available
> > by reading ShmemPmdMapped and ShmemHugePages fields in ``/proc/meminfo``.
> > To identify what applications are mapping file transparent huge pages, it
>
> Previously here, but: this reads rather odd. "file transparent huge pages".
> "PMD-sized THPs specific to shmem are tracked separately ..." ?
>
I totally agree. Reading "file transparent huge pages" confused me even
more. I will fold these changes as well.
Thanks, David.
--
Pankaj
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-04-03 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-03 10:38 Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2025-04-03 10:50 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2025-04-03 13:49 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-04-03 18:21 ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung) [this message]
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