From: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>, "Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
damon@lists.linux.dev, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 14/16] Docs/mm/damon/design: document attrs-only monitoring
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2026 13:57:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260705205743.98656-15-sj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260705205743.98656-1-sj@kernel.org>
Update DAMON design document for the attributes only monitoring mode.
Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
index 457d6e8bc7878..67398e2133036 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
@@ -316,6 +316,26 @@ Another way to do this for higher accuracy is using :ref:`DAMOS filter
information in page level. But, because it is operated in page level, the
overhead is proportional to the size of the memory.
+Data Attributes-only Monitoring
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Data access is the primary monitoring information for DAMON. Hence it
+:ref:`adjusts <damon_design_data_attrs_monitoring>` regions using the access
+:ref:`counter <damon_design_region_based_sampling>` (``nr_accesses``). In some
+use cases, however, users may want some of :ref:`attributes
+<damon_design_data_attrs_monitoring>` to be the primary information.
+
+Data attributes-only monitoring mode supports this use case. For the mode,
+each attribute probe has their priority weight value. Users can describe by
+what combination of the attributes the primary information is deeecided, by
+setting the priority weight value. If the total sum of the weights is not
+zero, the mode is enabled. The regions adjustment mechaanism uses the weighted
+sum of the :ref:`probe hit counts <damon_design_data_attrs_monitoring>` instead
+of ``nr_accesses`` in the case. When the mode is enabled, access monitoring is
+automatically turned off. The access counter (``nr_accesses``) will always be
+zero and not updated. Hence the mode is called Data Attributes "only"
+monitoring.
+
Dynamic Target Space Updates Handling
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-05 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-05 20:57 [RFC PATCH 00/16] mm/damon: introduce data attributes only monitoring SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 01/16] mm/damon/core: introduce damon_probe->weight SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 02/16] mm/damon/core: ask apply_probes() ops callback to set sampling address SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 03/16] mm/damon/paddr: set samples in apply_probes() if requested SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 04/16] mm/damon/core: ask apply_probe() to return max probe hits weighted sum SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 05/16] mm/damon/core: implement damon_probe_hits_wsum() SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 06/16] mm/damon/paddr: respect return_max_wsum SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 07/16] mm/damon/core: extend merge function to work with probe hits SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 08/16] mm/damon/core: disable access monitoring when probe weights are set SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 09/16] mm/damon/core: set samples in apply_probes() if " SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 10/16] mm/damon/core: s/max_nr_accesses/max_merge_score/ in kdamond_fn() SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 11/16] mm/damon/core: get merge threshold from probe hits when weights are set SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 12/16] mm/damon/core: implement damon_has_probe_weight() SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 13/16] mm/damon/sysfs: implement probe/weight file SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` SJ Park [this message]
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 15/16] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document weight sysfs file SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 16/16] Docs/ABI/damon: document probe weight file SJ Park
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