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[v3,3/4] mm/ksm: document smart scan mode

Message ID 20230926040939.516161-4-shr@devkernel.io (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series Smart scanning mode for KSM | expand

Commit Message

Stefan Roesch Sept. 26, 2023, 4:09 a.m. UTC 
This adds documentation for the smart scan mode of KSM.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
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 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst | 9 +++++++++
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst
index 776f244bdae4..1762219baf51 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.
 
+smart_scan
+        By default KSM checks every candidate page for each scan. It does
+        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 disabled. The ``pages_skipped`` metric shows how
+        effetive the setting is.
+
 The effectiveness of KSM and MADV_MERGEABLE is shown in ``/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/``:
 
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