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| author | SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> | 2023-01-10 22:03:55 +0300 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2023-02-03 09:32:51 +0300 |
| commit | 86834644e3c9301ccd28df1293c37306a6332f3b (patch) | |
| tree | b34b44f67886e65191e2bce2b4d9c50e872be144 /Documentation | |
| parent | 55901e89d2864b5ef9961892470eedf29279d412 (diff) | |
| download | linux-86834644e3c9301ccd28df1293c37306a6332f3b.tar.xz | |
Docs/mm/damon/index: mention DAMOS on the intro
What DAMON aims to do is not only access monitoring but efficient and
effective access-aware system operations. And DAMon-based Operation
Schemes (DAMOS) is the important feature of DAMON for the goal. Make the
intro of DAMON documentation to emphasize the goal and mention DAMOS.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230110190400.119388-4-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/mm/damon/index.rst | 21 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/damon/index.rst b/Documentation/mm/damon/index.rst index 48c0bbff98b2..2983699c12ea 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/damon/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/damon/index.rst @@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ DAMON: Data Access MONitor ========================== -DAMON is a data access monitoring framework subsystem for the Linux kernel. -The core mechanisms of DAMON (refer to :doc:`design` for the detail) make it +DAMON is a Linux kernel subsystem that provides a framework for data access +monitoring and the monitoring results based system operations. The core +monitoring mechanisms of DAMON (refer to :doc:`design` for the detail) make it - *accurate* (the monitoring output is useful enough for DRAM level memory management; It might not appropriate for CPU Cache levels, though), @@ -14,12 +15,16 @@ The core mechanisms of DAMON (refer to :doc:`design` for the detail) make it - *scalable* (the upper-bound of the overhead is in constant range regardless of the size of target workloads). -Using this framework, therefore, the kernel's memory management mechanisms can -make advanced decisions. Experimental memory management optimization works -that incurring high data accesses monitoring overhead could implemented again. -In user space, meanwhile, users who have some special workloads can write -personalized applications for better understanding and optimizations of their -workloads and systems. +Using this framework, therefore, the kernel can operate system in an +access-aware fashion. Because the features are also exposed to the user space, +users who have special information about their workloads can write personalized +applications for better understanding and optimizations of their workloads and +systems. + +For easier development of such systems, DAMON provides a feature called DAMOS +(DAMon-based Operation Schemes) in addition to the monitoring. Using the +feature, DAMON users in both kernel and user spaces can do access-aware system +operations with no code but simple configurations. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 |