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diff --git a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst index 3b4ce873fa71..eaf52f3a9144 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst @@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ DAMON subsystem is configured with three layers including interfaces for the user space, on top of the core layer. -Configurable Layers -=================== +Configurable Operations Set +--------------------------- DAMON provides data access monitoring functionality while making the accuracy and the overhead controllable. The fundamental access monitorings require @@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ Also, if some architectures or devices support special optimized access check primitives, those will be easily configurable. -Reference Implementations of Address Space Specific Monitoring Operations -========================================================================= +Operations Set Layer +==================== The monitoring operations are defined in two parts: @@ -105,8 +105,12 @@ conflict with the reclaim logic using ``PG_idle`` and ``PG_young`` page flags, as Idle page tracking does. -Address Space Independent Core Mechanisms -========================================= +Core Logics +=========== + + +Monitoring +---------- Below four sections describe each of the DAMON core mechanisms and the five monitoring attributes, ``sampling interval``, ``aggregation interval``, @@ -115,7 +119,7 @@ regions``. Access Frequency Monitoring ---------------------------- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The output of DAMON says what pages are how frequently accessed for a given duration. The resolution of the access frequency is controlled by setting @@ -142,7 +146,7 @@ size of the target workload grows. Region Based Sampling ---------------------- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To avoid the unbounded increase of the overhead, DAMON groups adjacent pages that assumed to have the same access frequencies into a region. As long as the @@ -159,7 +163,7 @@ assumption is not guaranteed. Adaptive Regions Adjustment ---------------------------- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Even somehow the initial monitoring target regions are well constructed to fulfill the assumption (pages in same region have similar access frequencies), @@ -178,7 +182,7 @@ keeping the bounds users set for their trade-off. Dynamic Target Space Updates Handling -------------------------------------- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The monitoring target address range could dynamically changed. For example, virtual memory could be dynamically mapped and unmapped. Physical memory could |