We would like to get a better view of the level of fragmentation within
the SLUB allocator. Total number of partial slabs is an indicator of
fragmentation.
Add a command line option (-P | --partial) to sort the slab list by
total number of partial slabs.
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/vm/slabinfo.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/vm/slabinfo.c b/tools/vm/slabinfo.c
index 3f3a2db65794..469ff6157986 100644
--- a/tools/vm/slabinfo.c
+++ b/tools/vm/slabinfo.c
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ static void fatal(const char *x, ...)
static void usage(void)
{
printf("slabinfo 4/15/2011. (c) 2007 sgi/(c) 2011 Linux Foundation.\n\n"
- "slabinfo [-aABDefhilLnorsStTUvXz1] [N=K] [-dafzput] [slab-regexp]\n"
+ "slabinfo [-aABDefhilLnoPrsStTUvXz1] [N=K] [-dafzput] [slab-regexp]\n"
"-a|--aliases Show aliases\n"
"-A|--activity Most active slabs first\n"
"-B|--Bytes Show size in bytes\n"
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ static void usage(void)
"-n|--numa Show NUMA information\n"
"-N|--lines=K Show the first K slabs\n"
"-o|--ops Show kmem_cache_ops\n"
+ "-P|--partial Sort by number of partial slabs\n"
"-r|--report Detailed report on single slabs\n"
"-s|--shrink Shrink slabs\n"
"-S|--Size Sort by size\n"
@@ -1361,6 +1362,7 @@ struct option opts[] = {
{ "numa", no_argument, NULL, 'n' },
{ "lines", required_argument, NULL, 'N'},
{ "ops", no_argument, NULL, 'o' },
+ { "partial", no_argument, NULL, 'p'},
{ "report", no_argument, NULL, 'r' },
{ "shrink", no_argument, NULL, 's' },
{ "Size", no_argument, NULL, 'S'},
@@ -1382,7 +1384,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
page_size = getpagesize();
- while ((c = getopt_long(argc, argv, "aABd::DefhilLnN:orsStTUvXz1",
+ while ((c = getopt_long(argc, argv, "aABd::DefhilLnN:oPrsStTUvXz1",
opts, NULL)) != -1)
switch (c) {
case 'a':
@@ -1436,6 +1438,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
case 'r':
show_report = 1;
break;
+ case 'P':
+ sort_partial = 1;
+ break;
case 's':
shrink = 1;
break;
--
2.21.0
