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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:46:15 -0500
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Organization: Red Hat, Inc
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To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/12] Export unusable free space index via /proc/pagetypeinfo
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On 02/18/2010 01:02 PM, 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<mel@csn.ul.ie>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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