On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 22:27:51 +0000 Sourav Panda <souravpanda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Today, we do not have any observability of per-page metadata > and how much it takes away from the machine capacity. Thus, > we want to describe the amount of memory that is going towards > per-page metadata, which can vary depending on build > configuration, machine architecture, and system use. > > This patch adds 2 fields to /proc/vmstat that can used as shown > below: > > Accounting per-page metadata allocated by boot-allocator: > /proc/vmstat:nr_memmap_boot * PAGE_SIZE > > Accounting per-page metadata allocated by buddy-allocator: > /proc/vmstat:nr_memmap * PAGE_SIZE > > Accounting total Perpage metadata allocated on the machine: > (/proc/vmstat:nr_memmap_boot + > /proc/vmstat:nr_memmap) * PAGE_SIZE Under what circumstances do these change? Only hotplug? It's nasty, but would it be sufficient to simply emit these numbers into dmesg when they change?
