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SubjectRe: [PATCH 8/8] Add VM counters for transparent hugepages
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:18:27AM +0100, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 04:45:28PM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > --- a/include/linux/vmstat.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/vmstat.h
> > @@ -58,6 +58,13 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PSWPIN, PSWPOUT,
> > UNEVICTABLE_PGCLEARED, /* on COW, page truncate */
> > UNEVICTABLE_PGSTRANDED, /* unable to isolate on unlock */
> > UNEVICTABLE_MLOCKFREED,
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> > + THP_FAULT_ALLOC,
> > + THP_COLLAPSE_ALLOC,
> > + THP_FAULT_FALLBACK,
>
> Wouldn't this better be named THP_FAULT_ALLOC_FAIL? After all, it
> counts allocation failures, not what results from them.

It doesn't really fail anything for the user, so I thought fallback
was better.

>
> Secondly, the order does not match the strings, it will report the
> THP_COLLAPSE_ALLOC item as "thp_fault_fallback" and vice versa.


Oops, I broke that while merging Andrea's change. Will resend.

> Can you make this "_failed" instead, to match the enum symbol? Andrea
> wasn't sure which was better, "failure" or "failed". Right now, we
> have two instances of "fail" and two instances of "failed" in
> /proc/vmstat, it's probably best not to introduce a third one.

Okay.

-Andi

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ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.


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