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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst index 97d816791aca..b244f0202a03 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst @@ -184,6 +184,24 @@ The maximum possible ``pages_sharing/pages_shared`` ratio is limited by the ``max_page_sharing`` tunable. To increase the ratio ``max_page_sharing`` must be increased accordingly. +Monitoring KSM events +===================== + +There are some counters in /proc/vmstat that may be used to monitor KSM events. +KSM might help save memory, it's a tradeoff by may suffering delay on KSM COW +or on swapping in copy. Those events could help users evaluate whether or how +to use KSM. For example, if cow_ksm increases too fast, user may decrease the +range of madvise(, , MADV_MERGEABLE). + +cow_ksm + is incremented every time a KSM page triggers copy on write (COW) + when users try to write to a KSM page, we have to make a copy. + +ksm_swpin_copy + is incremented every time a KSM page is copied when swapping in + note that KSM page might be copied when swapping in because do_swap_page() + cannot do all the locking needed to reconstitute a cross-anon_vma KSM page. + -- Izik Eidus, Hugh Dickins, 17 Nov 2009 |