linux/Documentation/vm
Kirill A. Shutemov f9719a03de thp, vmstats: count deferred split events
Count how many times we put a THP in split queue.  Currently, it happens
on partial unmap of a THP.

Rapidly growing value can indicate that an application behaves
unfriendly wrt THP: often fault in huge page and then unmap part of it.
This leads to unnecessary memory fragmentation and the application may
require tuning.

The event also can help with debugging kernel [mis-]behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
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.gitignore
00-INDEX mm: introduce idle page tracking 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
active_mm.txt
balance mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
cleancache.txt cleancache: forbid overriding cleancache_ops 2015-04-14 16:49:03 -07:00
frontswap.txt
highmem.txt
hugetlbpage.txt Documentation: update libhugetlbfs location and use for testing 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
hwpoison.txt
idle_page_tracking.txt mm: introduce idle page tracking 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
ksm.txt
numa
numa_memory_policy.txt
overcommit-accounting
page_migration mm: page migration avoid touching newpage until no going back 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
page_owner.txt mm, page_owner: convert page_owner_inited to static key 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
pagemap.txt proc: export idle flag via kpageflags 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
remap_file_pages.txt mm: replace remap_file_pages() syscall with emulation 2015-02-10 14:30:30 -08:00
slub.txt slub: convert SLAB_DEBUG_FREE to SLAB_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
soft-dirty.txt
split_page_table_lock mm: make compound_head() robust 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
transhuge.txt thp, vmstats: count deferred split events 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
unevictable-lru.txt mm: rmap use pte lock not mmap_sem to set PageMlocked 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
userfaultfd.txt userfaultfd: change the read API to return a uffd_msg 2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
zsmalloc.txt zsmalloc: zsmalloc documentation 2015-04-15 16:35:21 -07:00
zswap.txt zswap: update docs for runtime-changeable attributes 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00