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Date:   Mon, 1 Jun 2020 12:57:36 -0400
From:   Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
To:     Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
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        Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>, John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmstat: Add events for PMD based THP migration
 without split
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Hi Anshuman,

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 09:04:04AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> This adds the following two new VM events which will help in validating PMD
> based THP migration without split. Statistics reported through these events
> will help in performance debugging.
> 
> 1. THP_PMD_MIGRATION_SUCCESS
> 2. THP_PMD_MIGRATION_FAILURE

The names suggest a binary event similar to the existing
pgmigrate_success/fail, but FAILURE only tracks one kind of migration error,
and then only when the thp is successfully split, so shouldn't it be called
SPLIT instead?