This is about https://github.com/memcached/memcached/pull/1086
Memcached's memory is managed by slab classes. Each slab class has many pages. When one page is not used by slab, it will be moved to the global page pool (i.e., slab class 0) for later use.
The stats slabs command shows page count of active slab classes, and the total_malloced memory size.
And if we add global pool pages count, it will be more helpful for users to understand memory information, i.e.,pages of all active slab classes + pages of global pool = total malloced pages
e.g.,
STAT 20:total_pages 40 + STAT 24:total_pages 15 + STAT global_pool_pages 45 = total_malloced 100 pages