Hello DAMON community, Time flies. The second quater of 2024 has passed. Let me take a time to look back what happened to DAMON community in the last three months and share my humble summary with this quaterly news letter. Highlights of Highlights ======================== DAMON gained a feature [10] for CXL-based tiered memory management. HacKerMaiL (hkml), a simple mailing tool that DAMON maintainer is developing, made an official commitment [12] to support DAMON community. DAMON has presented and discussed with more people from OSSummit NA [4] and LSF/MM+BPF [7]. It will again be presented and discussed with more folks in September [10,13]. Please read below for more highlights for each month. April 2024 ========== DAMO v2.2.8 has released [1] with memory footprint monitoring feature. DAMON news letter for 2024-Q1 has posted [2]. Using Oracle's awesome kernel configs comparison tool, we found some dsitros that enable DAMON on their kernel [3]. DAMON has presented[4] on Open Source Summit North America 2024. The third in-person DAMON meetup has also held [5] on the conference. May 2024 ======== Access/Contiguity-aware Memory Auto-scaling second RFC idea with example implementation is posted [6]. DAMON's status and future plans have shared and discussed on LSFMM+BPF. LWN's summary of the session is available [7]. Memory managment subsystem pull request [8] for Linux 6.10-rc1 that contains DAMOS young page filter has merged. Beer/Coffee/Tea DAMON meetup has extended [9] for reservation-based ones. June 2024 ========= DAMON talk for Open Source Summit Europe 2024 has been accepted and scheduled [10]. SK hynix' patch series titled "DAMON based tiered memory managment for CXL memory" has been merged [11] into mm-unstable tree. DAMON community got a simple mailing tool called HacKerMaiL (hkml), which is officially committed [12] to support the development workflow. A session for DAMON at kernel summit 2024 has proposed [13] . Previous news letters ===================== - 2024 Q1: https://lore.kernel.org/20240402191224.92305-1-sj@xxxxxxxxxx More Past DAMON News ==================== If you're interested in a humblie list of more DAMON events that happened in past and curated by DAMON maintainer, please reach out to the project site's news page [14]. References ========== [1] https://github.com/awslabs/damo/blob/v2.2.8/USAGE.md#recording-memory-footprints [2] https://lore.kernel.org/damon/20240402191224.92305-1-sj@xxxxxxxxxx/ [3] https://oracle.github.io/kconfigs/?config=UTS_RELEASE&config=DAMON [4] https://sched.co/1aBOg [5] https://sched.co/1cP4G [6] https://lore.kernel.org/20240512193657.79298-1-sj@xxxxxxxxxx [7] https://lwn.net/Articles/973702/ [8] https://lore.kernel.org/20240517192239.9285edd85f8ef893bb508a61@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [9] https://lore.kernel.org/20240519163329.150340-1-sj@xxxxxxxxxx [10] https://sched.co/1ej2S [11] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240614185328.BA2C1C2BD10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [12] https://lore.kernel.org/20240621163626.74815-2-sj@xxxxxxxxxx [13] https://lore.kernel.org/20240614175504.87365-1-sj@xxxxxxxxxx/ [14] https://sjp38.github.io/post/damon_news/