linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Introduce Data Access MONitor (DAMON)

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Date:   Tue, 28 Jan 2020 05:20:35 -0500
From:   Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
To:     sjpark@...zon.com
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.de>,
        sj38.park@...il.com, acme@...nel.org, amit@...nel.org,
        brendan.d.gregg@...il.com, corbet@....net, dwmw@...zon.com,
        mgorman@...e.de, rostedt@...dmis.org, kirill@...temov.name,
        brendanhiggins@...gle.com, colin.king@...onical.com,
        minchan@...nel.org, vdavydov.dev@...il.com, vdavydov@...allels.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Introduce Data Access MONitor (DAMON)



> On Jan 28, 2020, at 3:58 AM, sjpark@...zon.com wrote:
> 
> This patchset introduces a new kernel module for practical monitoring of data
> accesses, namely DAMON.
> 
> The patches are organized in the following sequence.  The first four patches
> implements the core logic of DAMON one by one.  After that, the fifth patch
> implements DAMON's debugfs interface for users.  To provide a minimal reference
> to the low level interface and for more convenient use/tests of the DAMON, the
> sixth patch implements an user space tool.  The seventh patch adds a document
> for administrators of DAMON, and the eightth patch provides DAMON's kunit
> tests.  Finally, the ninth patch implements a tracepoint for DAMON.  As the
> tracepoint prints every monitoring results, it will be easily integrated with
> other tracers supporting tracepoints including perf.

I am a bit surprised that this patchset did not include perf maintainers which makes me wonder if there is any attempt to discuss first if we actually need a whole new subsystem for it or a existing tool can be enhanced.