Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753189Ab0BSBfl (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:35:41 -0500 Received: from mail-px0-f191.google.com ([209.85.216.191]:50796 "EHLO mail-px0-f191.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753005Ab0BSBfj (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:35:39 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=iI7Ah0Tx5+9gpRZX5P/SJqAmKYReEl7cdRiC00uD5uVzVUXReYERbCSahpIRRNMIWE DV0Winb2J2lbmSugja80rRI46fAo1l0eMaCDrwNUeTRWU1pTQbSKWeYYjktO0Wyp0BZL af7BLYlhjdT0THtBBvbozued0dI/tlDY79TLs= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1266516162-14154-7-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> References: <1266516162-14154-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <1266516162-14154-7-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:35:38 +0900 Message-ID: <28c262361002181735w56ea868fmf778d3421bbecb31@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/12] Export unusable free space index via /proc/pagetypeinfo From: Minchan Kim To: Mel Gorman Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Christoph Lameter , Adam Litke , Avi Kivity , David Rientjes , KOSAKI Motohiro , Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 879 Lines: 21 On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > Unusuable 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 Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/