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Commit f1a5ab12 authored by Mel Gorman's avatar Mel Gorman Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: export fragmentation index via debugfs



The fragmentation fragmentation index, is only meaningful if an allocation
would fail and indicates what the failure is due to.  A value of -1 such
as in many of the examples above states that the allocation would succeed.
 If it would fail, the value is between 0 and 1.  A value tending towards
0 implies the allocation failed due to a lack of memory.  A value tending
towards 1 implies it failed due to external fragmentation.

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-zo basis via
/sys/kernel/debug/extfrag/extfrag_index

> cat /sys/kernel/debug/extfrag/extfrag_index
Node 0, zone      DMA -1.000 -1.000 -1.000 -1.000 -1.000 -1.000 -1.000 -1.00
Node 0, zone   Normal -1.000 -1.000 -1.000 -1.000 -1.000 -1.000 -1.000 0.954

Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent d7a5752c
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