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diff --git a/Documentation/numastat.txt b/Documentation/numastat.txt index 9fcc9a608dc0..520327790d54 100644 --- a/Documentation/numastat.txt +++ b/Documentation/numastat.txt | |||
@@ -5,18 +5,23 @@ Numa policy hit/miss statistics | |||
5 | 5 | ||
6 | All units are pages. Hugepages have separate counters. | 6 | All units are pages. Hugepages have separate counters. |
7 | 7 | ||
8 | numa_hit A process wanted to allocate memory from this node, | 8 | numa_hit A process wanted to allocate memory from this node, |
9 | and succeeded. | 9 | and succeeded. |
10 | numa_miss A process wanted to allocate memory from another node, | 10 | |
11 | but ended up with memory from this node. | 11 | numa_miss A process wanted to allocate memory from another node, |
12 | numa_foreign A process wanted to allocate on this node, | 12 | but ended up with memory from this node. |
13 | but ended up with memory from another one. | 13 | |
14 | local_node A process ran on this node and got memory from it. | 14 | numa_foreign A process wanted to allocate on this node, |
15 | other_node A process ran on this node and got memory from another node. | 15 | but ended up with memory from another one. |
16 | interleave_hit Interleaving wanted to allocate from this node | 16 | |
17 | and succeeded. | 17 | local_node A process ran on this node and got memory from it. |
18 | |||
19 | other_node A process ran on this node and got memory from another node. | ||
20 | |||
21 | interleave_hit Interleaving wanted to allocate from this node | ||
22 | and succeeded. | ||
18 | 23 | ||
19 | For easier reading you can use the numastat utility from the numactl package | 24 | For easier reading you can use the numastat utility from the numactl package |
20 | (ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/ak/numa/numactl*). Note that it only works | 25 | (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/libnuma/). Note that it only works |
21 | well right now on machines with a small number of CPUs. | 26 | well right now on machines with a small number of CPUs. |
22 | 27 | ||