X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fnumastat.txt;h=520327790d5431daae3a537d0fd36ec897cde5a8;hb=9fd33d009e8cc0363961601fcdf4eeae1ce624d7;hp=9fcc9a608dc04789c1a0831db06998561dffbec8;hpb=a724eada8c2a7b62463b73ccf73fd0bb6e928aeb;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git diff --git a/Documentation/numastat.txt b/Documentation/numastat.txt index 9fcc9a608dc0..520327790d54 100644 --- a/Documentation/numastat.txt +++ b/Documentation/numastat.txt @@ -5,18 +5,23 @@ Numa policy hit/miss statistics All units are pages. Hugepages have separate counters. -numa_hit A process wanted to allocate memory from this node, - and succeeded. -numa_miss A process wanted to allocate memory from another node, - but ended up with memory from this node. -numa_foreign A process wanted to allocate on this node, - but ended up with memory from another one. -local_node A process ran on this node and got memory from it. -other_node A process ran on this node and got memory from another node. -interleave_hit Interleaving wanted to allocate from this node - and succeeded. +numa_hit A process wanted to allocate memory from this node, + and succeeded. + +numa_miss A process wanted to allocate memory from another node, + but ended up with memory from this node. + +numa_foreign A process wanted to allocate on this node, + but ended up with memory from another one. + +local_node A process ran on this node and got memory from it. + +other_node A process ran on this node and got memory from another node. + +interleave_hit Interleaving wanted to allocate from this node + and succeeded. For easier reading you can use the numastat utility from the numactl package -(ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/ak/numa/numactl*). Note that it only works +(http://oss.sgi.com/projects/libnuma/). Note that it only works well right now on machines with a small number of CPUs.