From nobody Fri Feb 13 09:28:27 2026 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 768E5E82CB1 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2023 16:22:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231686AbjI0QWz (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:22:55 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:36604 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231463AbjI0QWr (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:22:47 -0400 Received: from 66-220-144-179.mail-mxout.facebook.com (66-220-144-179.mail-mxout.facebook.com [66.220.144.179]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6C1229C for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2023 09:22:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by devbig1114.prn1.facebook.com (Postfix, from userid 425415) id 5401DCA4DC14; Wed, 27 Sep 2023 09:22:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Stefan Roesch To: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: shr@devkernel.io, akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@redhat.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org, riel@surriel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: [PATCH v4 3/4] mm/ksm: document smart scan mode Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 09:22:21 -0700 Message-Id: <20230927162222.3827551-4-shr@devkernel.io> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.39.3 In-Reply-To: <20230927162222.3827551-1-shr@devkernel.io> References: <20230927162222.3827551-1-shr@devkernel.io> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" This adds documentation for the smart scan mode of KSM. Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand --- Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst b/Documentation/admin-gui= de/mm/ksm.rst index 776f244bdae4..2b38a8bb08af 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst @@ -155,6 +155,15 @@ stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs scan. It's a noop if not a single KSM page hit the ``max_page_sharing`` yet. =20 +smart_scan + Historically KSM checked every candidate page for each scan. It did + not take into account historic information. When smart scan is + enabled, pages that have previously not been de-duplicated get + skipped. How often these pages are skipped depends on how often + de-duplication has already been tried and failed. By default this + optimization is enabled. The ``pages_skipped`` metric shows how + effective the setting is. + The effectiveness of KSM and MADV_MERGEABLE is shown in ``/sys/kernel/mm/k= sm/``: =20 general_profit --=20 2.39.3