The quilt patch titled
Subject: Docs/mm/damon/design: document 'age' of region
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
docs-mm-damon-design-document-age-of-region.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Docs/mm/damon/design: document 'age' of region
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 19:17:36 +0000
Patch series "Docs/{mm,admin-guide}damon: update design and usage docs".
Update DAMON design and usage documents for outdated and unnecessarily
duplicated parts.
This patch (of 7):
The 'age' of each region in DAMON monitoring results is an important
concept for both monitoring part and DAMOS. And DAMOS section of the
design document is mentioning it. However, the age itself is not
explained in the document. Add a section for that.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230616191742.87531-1-sj@xxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230616191742.87531-2-sj@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
--- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst~docs-mm-damon-design-document-age-of-region
+++ a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
@@ -190,6 +190,20 @@ In this way, DAMON provides its best-eff
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
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from sj@xxxxxxxxxx are
