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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:41:53 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com> cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 11/11] thp, vmstat: implement HZP_ALLOC and HZP_ALLOC_FAILED events On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com> > > hzp_alloc is incremented every time a huge zero page is successfully > allocated. It includes allocations which where dropped due > race with other allocation. Note, it doesn't count every map > of the huge zero page, only its allocation. > > hzp_alloc_failed is incremented if kernel fails to allocate huge zero > page and falls back to using small pages. > Nobody is going to know what hzp_ is, sorry. It's better to be more verbose and name them what they actually are: THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC and THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC_FAILED. But this would assume we want to lazily allocate them, which I disagree with hpa about. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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