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-===============================
-Numa policy hit/miss statistics
-===============================
-
-/sys/devices/system/node/node*/numastat
-
-All units are pages. Hugepages have separate counters.
-
-=============== ============================================================
-numa_hit A process wanted to allocate memory from this node,
- and succeeded.
-
-numa_miss A process wanted to allocate memory from another node,
- but ended up with memory from this node.
-
-numa_foreign A process wanted to allocate on this node,
- but ended up with memory from another one.
-
-local_node A process ran on this node and got memory from it.
-
-other_node A process ran on this node and got memory from another node.
-
-interleave_hit Interleaving wanted to allocate from this node
- and succeeded.
-=============== ============================================================
-
-For easier reading you can use the numastat utility from the numactl package
-(http://oss.sgi.com/projects/libnuma/). Note that it only works
-well right now on machines with a small number of CPUs.
-