# Re: \[PATCH v2\] proc: add percpu populated pages count to meminfo

- From: David Rientjes \<rientjes@google.com\>
- Date: 2018-08-08 00:13:05 
- List: linux-api
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2018/08/5353069
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-mm/2018/08/5352725/t.md

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On Tue, 7 Aug 2018, Dennis Zhou wrote:

> From: "Dennis Zhou (Facebook)" <redacted>
> 
> Currently, percpu memory only exposes allocation and utilization
> information via debugfs. This more or less is only really useful for
> understanding the fragmentation and allocation information at a
> per-chunk level with a few global counters. This is also gated behind a
> config. BPF and cgroup, for example, have seen an increase use causing
> increased use of percpu memory. Let's make it easier for someone to
> identify how much memory is being used.
> 
> This patch adds the "Percpu" stat to meminfo to more easily look up how
> much percpu memory is in use. This number includes the cost for all
> allocated backing pages and not just isnight at the a unit, per chunk
> level. Metadata is excluded. I think excluding metadata is fair because
> the backing memory scales with the numbere of cpus and can quickly
> outweigh the metadata. It also makes this calculation light.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <redacted>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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