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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-21 08:12:50 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-21 08:12:50 +0400
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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina: "It's indeed trivial -- mostly documentation updates and a bunch of typo fixes from Masanari. There are also several linux/version.h include removals from Jesper." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (101 commits) kcore: fix spelling in read_kcore() comment constify struct pci_dev * in obvious cases Revert "char: Fix typo in viotape.c" init: fix wording error in mm_init comment usb: gadget: Kconfig: fix typo for 'different' Revert "power, max8998: Include linux/module.h just once in drivers/power/max8998_charger.c" writeback: fix fn name in writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle() comment header writeback: fix typo in the writeback_control comment Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation tpm_tis: fix tis_lock with respect to RCU Revert "media: Fix typo in mixer_drv.c and hdmi_drv.c" Doc: Update numastat.txt qla4xxx: Add missing spaces to error messages compiler.h: Fix typo security: struct security_operations kerneldoc fix Documentation: broken URL in libata.tmpl Documentation: broken URL in filesystems.tmpl mtd: simplify return logic in do_map_probe() mm: fix comment typo of truncate_inode_pages_range power: bq27x00: Fix typos in comment ...
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@@ -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.