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Patch series "ksm: count allocated rmap_items and update documentation", v5. KSM can save memory by merging identical pages, but also can consume additional memory, because it needs to generate rmap_items to save each scanned page's brief rmap information. To determine how beneficial the ksm-policy (like madvise), they are using brings, so we add a new interface /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat for each process The value "ksm_rmap_items" in it indicates the total allocated ksm rmap_items of this process. The detailed description can be seen in the following patches' commit message. This patch (of 2): KSM can save memory by merging identical pages, but also can consume additional memory, because it needs to generate rmap_items to save each scanned page's brief rmap information. Some of these pages may be merged, but some may not be abled to be merged after being checked several times, which are unprofitable memory consumed. The information about whether KSM save memory or consume memory in system-wide range can be determined by the comprehensive calculation of pages_sharing, pages_shared, pages_unshared and pages_volatile. A simple approximate calculation: profit =~ pages_sharing * sizeof(page) - (all_rmap_items) * sizeof(rmap_item); where all_rmap_items equals to the sum of pages_sharing, pages_shared, pages_unshared and pages_volatile. But we cannot calculate this kind of ksm profit inner single-process wide because the information of ksm rmap_item's number of a process is lacked. For user applications, if this kind of information could be obtained, it helps upper users know how beneficial the ksm-policy (like madvise) they are using brings, and then optimize their app code. For example, one application madvise 1000 pages as MERGEABLE, while only a few pages are really merged, then it's not cost-efficient. So we add a new interface /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat for each process in which the value of ksm_rmap_itmes is only shown now and so more values can be added in future. So similarly, we can calculate the ksm profit approximately for a single process by: profit =~ ksm_merging_pages * sizeof(page) - ksm_rmap_items * sizeof(rmap_item); where ksm_merging_pages is shown at /proc/<pid>/ksm_merging_pages, and ksm_rmap_items is shown in /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220830143731.299702-1-xu.xin16@zte.com.cn Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220830143838.299758-1-xu.xin16@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Xiaokai Ran <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: CGEL ZTE <cgel.zte@gmail.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.