On 24.05.23 07:51, yang.yang29@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: xu xin <xu.xin16@xxxxxxxxxx> The core idea of this patch set is to enable users to perceive the number of any pages merged by KSM, regardless of whether use_zero_page switch has been turned on, so that users can know how much free memory increase is really due to their madvise(MERGEABLE) actions. But the problem is, when enabling use_zero_pages, all empty pages will be merged with kernel zero pages instead of with each other as use_zero_pages is disabled, and then these zero-pages are no longer monitored by KSM. The motivations to do this is seen at: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202302100915227721315@xxxxxxxxxx/ In one word, we hope to implement the support for KSM-placed zero pages tracking without affecting the feature of use_zero_pages, so that app developer can also benefit from knowing the actual KSM profit by getting KSM-placed zero pages to optimize applications eventually when /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/use_zero_pages is enabled.
Ran the tests and they worked as expected. I only had some remaining feedback for the last patch, otherwise LGTM.
-- Thanks, David / dhildenb
