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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.txt b/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.txt index aa82ee4..1948004 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.txt @@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ but the call_site can usually be used to extrapolate that information. ================== mm_page_alloc page=%p pfn=%lu order=%d migratetype=%d gfp_flags=%s mm_page_alloc_zone_locked page=%p pfn=%lu order=%u migratetype=%d cpu=%d percpu_refill=%d -mm_page_free_direct page=%p pfn=%lu order=%d -mm_pagevec_free page=%p pfn=%lu order=%d cold=%d +mm_page_free page=%p pfn=%lu order=%d +mm_page_free_batched page=%p pfn=%lu order=%d cold=%d These four events deal with page allocation and freeing. mm_page_alloc is a simple indicator of page allocator activity. Pages may be allocated from @@ -53,13 +53,13 @@ amounts of activity imply high activity on the zone->lock. Taking this lock impairs performance by disabling interrupts, dirtying cache lines between CPUs and serialising many CPUs. -When a page is freed directly by the caller, the mm_page_free_direct event +When a page is freed directly by the caller, the only mm_page_free event is triggered. Significant amounts of activity here could indicate that the callers should be batching their activities. -When pages are freed using a pagevec, the mm_pagevec_free is -triggered. Broadly speaking, pages are taken off the LRU lock in bulk and -freed in batch with a pagevec. Significant amounts of activity here could +When pages are freed in batch, the also mm_page_free_batched is triggered. +Broadly speaking, pages are taken off the LRU lock in bulk and +freed in batch with a page list. Significant amounts of activity here could indicate that the system is under memory pressure and can also indicate contention on the zone->lru_lock. |
