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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:13:31 +0900
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
Adam Litke <agl@...ibm.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/11] Export unusable free space index via
/proc/unusable_index
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:16:07 +0900
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com> wrote:
> Hi, Kame.
>
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:03 AM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
> <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:25:40 +0000
> > Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie> wrote:
> >
> >> Unusable free space index is a measure of external fragmentation that
> >> takes the allocation size into account. For the most part, the huge page
> >> size will be the size of interest but not necessarily so it is exported
> >> on a per-order and per-zone basis via /proc/unusable_index.
> >>
> >> The index is a value between 0 and 1. It can be expressed as a
> >> percentage by multiplying by 100 as documented in
> >> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
> >> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
> >> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
> >> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
> >> ---
> >> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 13 ++++-
> >> mm/vmstat.c | 120 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> 2 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> >> index 5e132b5..5c4b0fb 100644
> >> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> >> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> >> @@ -452,6 +452,7 @@ Table 1-5: Kernel info in /proc
> >> sys See chapter 2
> >> sysvipc Info of SysVIPC Resources (msg, sem, shm) (2.4)
> >> tty Info of tty drivers
> >> + unusable_index Additional page allocator information (see text)(2.5)
> >> uptime System uptime
> >> version Kernel version
> >> video bttv info of video resources (2.4)
> >> @@ -609,7 +610,7 @@ ZONE_DMA, 4 chunks of 2^1*PAGE_SIZE in ZONE_DMA, 101 chunks of 2^4*PAGE_SIZE
> >> available in ZONE_NORMAL, etc...
> >>
> >> More information relevant to external fragmentation can be found in
> >> -pagetypeinfo.
> >> +pagetypeinfo and unusable_index
> >>
> >> > cat /proc/pagetypeinfo
> >> Page block order: 9
> >> @@ -650,6 +651,16 @@ unless memory has been mlock()'d. Some of the Reclaimable blocks should
> >> also be allocatable although a lot of filesystem metadata may have to be
> >> reclaimed to achieve this.
> >>
> >> +> cat /proc/unusable_index
> >> +Node 0, zone DMA 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.001 0.005 0.013 0.021 0.037 0.037 0.101 0.230
> >> +Node 0, zone Normal 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.001 0.002 0.002 0.005 0.015 0.028 0.028 0.054
> >> +
> >> +The unusable free space index measures how much of the available free
> >> +memory cannot be used to satisfy an allocation of a given size and is a
> >> +value between 0 and 1. The higher the value, the more of free memory is
> >> +unusable and by implication, the worse the external fragmentation is. This
> >> +can be expressed as a percentage by multiplying by 100.
> >> +
> >> ..............................................................................
> >>
> >> meminfo:
> >> diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
> >> index 7f760cb..ca42e10 100644
> >> --- a/mm/vmstat.c
> >> +++ b/mm/vmstat.c
> >> @@ -453,6 +453,106 @@ static int frag_show(struct seq_file *m, void *arg)
> >> return 0;
> >> }
> >>
> >> +
> >> +struct contig_page_info {
> >> + unsigned long free_pages;
> >> + unsigned long free_blocks_total;
> >> + unsigned long free_blocks_suitable;
> >> +};
> >> +
> >> +/*
> >> + * Calculate the number of free pages in a zone, how many contiguous
> >> + * pages are free and how many are large enough to satisfy an allocation of
> >> + * the target size. Note that this function makes to attempt to estimate
> >> + * how many suitable free blocks there *might* be if MOVABLE pages were
> >> + * migrated. Calculating that is possible, but expensive and can be
> >> + * figured out from userspace
> >> + */
> >> +static void fill_contig_page_info(struct zone *zone,
> >> + unsigned int suitable_order,
> >> + struct contig_page_info *info)
> >> +{
> >> + unsigned int order;
> >> +
> >> + info->free_pages = 0;
> >> + info->free_blocks_total = 0;
> >> + info->free_blocks_suitable = 0;
> >> +
> >> + for (order = 0; order < MAX_ORDER; order++) {
> >> + unsigned long blocks;
> >> +
> >> + /* Count number of free blocks */
> >> + blocks = zone->free_area[order].nr_free;
> >> + info->free_blocks_total += blocks;
> >
> > ....for what this free_blocks_total is ?
>
> It's used by fragmentation_index in [06/11].
>
Ah, I see. thanks.
-Kame
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