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diff --git a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst index da110e89cab4..a98af99bb705 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst @@ -190,6 +190,20 @@ In this way, DAMON provides its best-effort quality and minimal overhead while keeping the bounds users set for their trade-off. +Age Tracking +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +By analyzing the monitoring results, users can also find how long the current +access pattern of a region has maintained. That could be used for good +understanding of the access pattern. For example, page placement algorithm +utilizing both the frequency and the recency could be implemented using that. +To make such access pattern maintained period analysis easier, DAMON maintains +yet another counter called ``age`` in each region. For each ``aggregation +interval``, DAMON checks if the region's size and access frequency +(``nr_accesses``) has significantly changed. If so, the counter is reset to +zero. Otherwise, the counter is increased. + + Dynamic Target Space Updates Handling ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |