Thread (31 messages) 31 messages, 7 authors, 2023-01-30

Re: [RESEND RFC PATCH v1 15/20] docs: document new procfs ksm knobs

From: Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
Date: 2023-01-24 04:09:49
Also in: linux-doc, linux-fsdevel, linux-kselftest, linux-mm, lkml

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 09:37:43AM -0800, Stefan Roesch wrote:
This documents the ksm_process_profit and ksm_merge_type settings in
ksm_stat.
"Document both ksm_process_profit and ksm_merge_type proc settings."
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <redacted>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst
index 72189bf1283e..70896f01d641 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst
@@ -211,7 +211,8 @@ several times, which are unprofitable memory consumed.
 			  ksm_rmap_items * sizeof(rmap_item).
 
    where ksm_merging_pages is shown under the directory ``/proc/<pid>/``,
-   and ksm_rmap_items is shown in ``/proc/<pid>/ksm_stat``.
+   and ksm_rmap_items is shown in ``/proc/<pid>/ksm_stat``. The process profit
+   is also shown in ``/proc/<pid>/ksm_stat`` as ksm_process_profit.
 
 From the perspective of application, a high ratio of ``ksm_rmap_items`` to
 ``ksm_merging_pages`` means a bad madvise-applied policy, so developers or
@@ -222,6 +223,9 @@ so if the ``ksm_rmap_items/ksm_merging_pages`` ratio exceeds 64 on 64-bit CPU
 or exceeds 128 on 32-bit CPU, then the app's madvise policy should be dropped,
 because the ksm profit is approximately zero or negative.
 
+The ksm_merge_type in ``/proc/<pid>/ksm_stat`` shows the merge type of the
+process. Valid values are ``none``, ``madvise`` and ``process``.
+
 Monitoring KSM events
 =====================
 
The change LGTM.

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