On 10/04/2018 08:47, David Rientjes wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2018, Andi Kleen wrote: > >>> Aside: should there be a new spec_flt field for struct task_struct that >>> complements maj_flt and min_flt and be exported through /proc/pid/stat? >> >> No. task_struct is already too bloated. If you need per process tracking >> you can always get it through trace points. >> > > Hi Andi, > > We have > > count_vm_event(PGFAULT); > count_memcg_event_mm(vma->vm_mm, PGFAULT); > > in handle_mm_fault() but not counterpart for spf. I think it would be > helpful to be able to determine how much faulting can be done > speculatively if there is no per-process tracking without tracing.
That sounds to be a good idea, I will create a separate patch a dedicated speculative_pgfault counter as PGFAULT is. Thanks, Laurent.
