mm/ksm: document pages_skipped sysfs knob
authorStefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>
Tue, 26 Sep 2023 04:09:39 +0000 (21:09 -0700)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 16 Oct 2023 22:44:39 +0000 (15:44 -0700)
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>
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst

index 9d235c1..e59231a 100644 (file)
@@ -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