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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst index 79435c537e21..d6874234a09a 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst @@ -551,6 +551,11 @@ split_deferred it would free up some memory. Pages on split queue are going to be split under memory pressure, if splitting is possible. +nr_anon + the number of anonymous THP we have in the whole system. These THPs + might be currently entirely mapped or have partially unmapped/unused + subpages. + As the system ages, allocating huge pages may be expensive as the system uses memory compaction to copy data around memory to free a huge page for use. There are some counters in ``/proc/vmstat`` to help |