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Documentation: update numastat explanation
authorVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Thu, 7 May 2020 12:02:17 +0000 (14:02 +0200)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fri, 15 May 2020 17:36:54 +0000 (11:36 -0600)
commit77691ee92d4abdc926c60b6fa1a5cbbe935e1244
treedf5af404d20643313587992103446e95f5a2eb5e
parentea8fdf1a40e9941e7eca76c057abd8bc03acb40e
Documentation: update numastat explanation

During recent patch discussion [1] it became apparent that the "other_node"
definition in the numastat documentation has always been different from actual
implementation. It was also noted that the stats can be innacurate on systems
with memoryless nodes.

This patch corrects the other_node definition (with minor tweaks to two more
definitions), adds a note about memoryless nodes and also two introductory
paragraphs to the numastat documentation.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200504070304.127361-1-sandipan@linux.ibm.com/T/#u

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507120217.12313-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/admin-guide/numastat.rst