From patchwork Fri Feb 10 21:50:13 2023 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Stefan Roesch X-Patchwork-Id: 13136506 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E006C64ED9 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:54:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233471AbjBJVyO (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Feb 2023 16:54:14 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:38778 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233729AbjBJVx5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Feb 2023 16:53:57 -0500 Received: from 66-220-144-178.mail-mxout.facebook.com (66-220-144-178.mail-mxout.facebook.com [66.220.144.178]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46AEA366BB for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2023 13:53:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by dev0134.prn3.facebook.com (Postfix, from userid 425415) id 88E346BFC2D7; Fri, 10 Feb 2023 13:50:33 -0800 (PST) From: Stefan Roesch To: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: shr@devkernel.io, linux-mm@kvack.org, riel@surriel.com, mhocko@suse.com, david@redhat.com, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: [RFC PATCH v2 09/19] docs: document general_profit sysfs knob Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 13:50:13 -0800 Message-Id: <20230210215023.2740545-10-shr@devkernel.io> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.30.2 In-Reply-To: <20230210215023.2740545-1-shr@devkernel.io> References: <20230210215023.2740545-1-shr@devkernel.io> MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org Document general_progit knob. Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm | 8 ++++++++ Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm index d244674a9480..7768e90f7a8f 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm @@ -51,3 +51,11 @@ Description: Control merging pages across different NUMA nodes. When it is set to 0 only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default). + +What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/general_profit +Date: January 2023 +KernelVersion: 6.1 +Contact: Linux memory management mailing list +Description: Measure how effective KSM is. + general_profit: how effective is KSM. The formula for the + calculation is in Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst index f160f9487a90..5c4daf44d79d 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst @@ -159,6 +159,8 @@ stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs The effectiveness of KSM and MADV_MERGEABLE is shown in ``/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/``: +general_profit + how effective is KSM. The calculation is explained below. pages_shared how many shared pages are being used pages_sharing