The quilt patch titled
Subject: Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: clarify quotas and watermarks sysfs interface
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
docs-admin-guide-mm-damon-usage-clarify-quotas-and-watermarks-sysfs-interface.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/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: clarify quotas and watermarks sysfs interface
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 19:17:41 +0000
Explanation of DAMOS quotas and watermarks are not clearly explaining the
meaning and expectation of each file. Add more clarification for those.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230616191742.87531-7-sj@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst~docs-admin-guide-mm-damon-usage-clarify-quotas-and-watermarks-sysfs-interface
+++ a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
@@ -306,7 +306,8 @@ Under the ``access_pattern`` directory,
``nr_accesses``, and ``age``) each having two files (``min`` and ``max``)
exist. You can set and get the access pattern for the given scheme by writing
to and reading from the ``min`` and ``max`` files under ``sz``,
-``nr_accesses``, and ``age`` directories, respectively.
+``nr_accesses``, and ``age`` directories, respectively. Note that the ``min``
+and the ``max`` form a closed interval.
schemes/<N>/quotas/
-------------------
@@ -320,7 +321,13 @@ Under ``quotas`` directory, three files
You can set the ``time quota`` in milliseconds, ``size quota`` in bytes, and
``reset interval`` in milliseconds by writing the values to the three files,
-respectively. You can also set the :ref:`prioritization weights
+respectively. Then, DAMON tries to use only up to ``time quota`` milliseconds
+for applying the ``action`` to memory regions of the ``access_pattern``, and to
+apply the action to only up to ``bytes`` bytes of memory regions within the
+``reset_interval_ms``. Setting both ``ms`` and ``bytes`` zero disables the
+quota limits.
+
+You can also set the :ref:`prioritization weights
<damon_design_damos_quotas_prioritization>` for size, access frequency, and age
in per-thousand unit by writing the values to the three files under the
``weights`` directory.
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from sj@xxxxxxxxxx are
