Re: [PATCH 05/11] Export unusable free space index via /proc/unusable_index

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:16:07 +0900
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, Kame.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:03 AM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
> <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:25:40 +0000
> > Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Unusable free space index is a measure of external fragmentation that
> >> takes the allocation size into account. For the most part, the huge page
> >> size will be the size of interest but not necessarily so it is exported
> >> on a per-order and per-zone basis via /proc/unusable_index.
> >>
> >> The index is a value between 0 and 1. It can be expressed as a
> >> percentage by multiplying by 100 as documented in
> >> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> ÂDocumentation/filesystems/proc.txt | Â 13 ++++-
> >> Âmm/vmstat.c            Â| Â120 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> Â2 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> >> index 5e132b5..5c4b0fb 100644
> >> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> >> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> >> @@ -452,6 +452,7 @@ Table 1-5: Kernel info in /proc
> >>  sys     See chapter 2
> >>  sysvipc   Info of SysVIPC Resources (msg, sem, shm)        (2.4)
> >>  tty   ÂInfo of tty drivers
> >> + unusable_index Additional page allocator information (see text)(2.5)
> >>  uptime   ÂSystem uptime
> >>  version   Kernel version
> >>  video      Âbttv info of video resources            (2.4)
> >> @@ -609,7 +610,7 @@ ZONE_DMA, 4 chunks of 2^1*PAGE_SIZE in ZONE_DMA, 101 chunks of 2^4*PAGE_SIZE
> >> Âavailable in ZONE_NORMAL, etc...
> >>
> >> ÂMore information relevant to external fragmentation can be found in
> >> -pagetypeinfo.
> >> +pagetypeinfo and unusable_index
> >>
> >> Â> cat /proc/pagetypeinfo
> >> ÂPage block order: 9
> >> @@ -650,6 +651,16 @@ unless memory has been mlock()'d. Some of the Reclaimable blocks should
> >> Âalso be allocatable although a lot of filesystem metadata may have to be
> >> Âreclaimed to achieve this.
> >>
> >> +> cat /proc/unusable_index
> >> +Node 0, zone   ÂDMA 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.001 0.005 0.013 0.021 0.037 0.037 0.101 0.230
> >> +Node 0, zone  Normal 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.001 0.002 0.002 0.005 0.015 0.028 0.028 0.054
> >> +
> >> +The unusable free space index measures how much of the available free
> >> +memory cannot be used to satisfy an allocation of a given size and is a
> >> +value between 0 and 1. The higher the value, the more of free memory is
> >> +unusable and by implication, the worse the external fragmentation is. This
> >> +can be expressed as a percentage by multiplying by 100.
> >> +
> >> Â..............................................................................
> >>
> >> Âmeminfo:
> >> diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
> >> index 7f760cb..ca42e10 100644
> >> --- a/mm/vmstat.c
> >> +++ b/mm/vmstat.c
> >> @@ -453,6 +453,106 @@ static int frag_show(struct seq_file *m, void *arg)
> >> Â Â Â return 0;
> >> Â}
> >>
> >> +
> >> +struct contig_page_info {
> >> + Â Â unsigned long free_pages;
> >> + Â Â unsigned long free_blocks_total;
> >> + Â Â unsigned long free_blocks_suitable;
> >> +};
> >> +
> >> +/*
> >> + * Calculate the number of free pages in a zone, how many contiguous
> >> + * pages are free and how many are large enough to satisfy an allocation of
> >> + * the target size. Note that this function makes to attempt to estimate
> >> + * how many suitable free blocks there *might* be if MOVABLE pages were
> >> + * migrated. Calculating that is possible, but expensive and can be
> >> + * figured out from userspace
> >> + */
> >> +static void fill_contig_page_info(struct zone *zone,
> >> + Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â unsigned int suitable_order,
> >> + Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â struct contig_page_info *info)
> >> +{
> >> + Â Â unsigned int order;
> >> +
> >> + Â Â info->free_pages = 0;
> >> + Â Â info->free_blocks_total = 0;
> >> + Â Â info->free_blocks_suitable = 0;
> >> +
> >> + Â Â for (order = 0; order < MAX_ORDER; order++) {
> >> + Â Â Â Â Â Â unsigned long blocks;
> >> +
> >> + Â Â Â Â Â Â /* Count number of free blocks */
> >> + Â Â Â Â Â Â blocks = zone->free_area[order].nr_free;
> >> + Â Â Â Â Â Â info->free_blocks_total += blocks;
> >
> > ....for what this free_blocks_total is ?
> 
> It's used by fragmentation_index in [06/11].
> 
Ah, I see. thanks.

-Kame

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