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authorGravatar Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> 2023-09-25 21:09:39 -0700
committerGravatar Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 2023-10-16 15:44:39 -0700
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mm/ksm: document pages_skipped sysfs knob
This adds documentation for the new metric pages_skipped. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926040939.516161-5-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -178,6 +178,8 @@ pages_unshared
how many pages unique but repeatedly checked for merging
pages_volatile
how many pages changing too fast to be placed in a tree
+pages_skipped
+ how many pages did the "smart" page scanning algorithm skip
full_scans
how many times all mergeable areas have been scanned
stable_node_chains