RE: [PATCH v7 8/8] mm: Document the newly added mTHP zswpout stats, clarify swpout semantics.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2024 10:37 AM
> To: Sridhar, Kanchana P <kanchana.p.sridhar@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 8/8] mm: Document the newly added mTHP zswpout
> stats, clarify swpout semantics.
> 
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 6:17 PM Kanchana P Sridhar
> <kanchana.p.sridhar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> nit: a bit weird to capitalize ZSWAP no? :)

No problem :). Will fix in v8.

> 
> >
> > +swpout
> > +       is incremented every time a huge page is swapped out to a non-ZSWAP
> > +       swap entity in one piece without splitting.
> > +
> 
> nit: "non-zswap swap entity" is a bit awkward. Maybe swapped out to a
> non-zswap swap device?

Sure, will make this change in v8. Thanks Nhat!





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