Added documentation for the newly added sysfs mTHP "zswpout" stats. Clarified that only non-ZSWAP mTHP swapouts will be accounted in the mTHP "swpout" stats. Signed-off-by: Kanchana P Sridhar <kanchana.p.sridhar@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst index cfdd16a52e39..a65f905e9ca7 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst @@ -530,10 +530,14 @@ anon_fault_fallback_charge instead falls back to using huge pages with lower orders or small pages even though the allocation was successful. -swpout - is incremented every time a huge page is swapped out in one +zswpout + is incremented every time a huge page is swapped out to ZSWAP in one piece without splitting. +swpout + is incremented every time a huge page is swapped out to a non-ZSWAP + swap entity in one piece without splitting. + swpout_fallback is incremented if a huge page has to be split before swapout. Usually because failed to allocate some continuous swap space -- 2.27.0
