linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v20 00/15] Introduce Data Access MONitor (DAMON)

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Date:   Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:27:38 +0200
From:   SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v20 00/15] Introduce Data Access MONitor (DAMON)

On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 12:51:22 +0200 SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.com> wrote:

> From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.de>
> 
> Changes from Previous Version
> =============================
> 
> - Place 'CREATE_TRACE_POINTS' after '#include' statements (Steven Rostedt)
> - Support large record file (Alkaid)
> - Place 'put_pid()' of virtual monitoring targets in 'cleanup' callback
> - Avoid conflict between concurrent DAMON users
> - Update evaluation result document
> 
> Introduction
> ============
> 
> DAMON is a data access monitoring framework subsystem for the Linux kernel.
> The core mechanisms of DAMON called 'region based sampling' and 'adaptive
> regions adjustment' (refer to 'mechanisms.rst' in the 11th patch of this
> patchset for the detail) make it
> 
>  - accurate (The monitored information is useful for DRAM level memory
>    management. It might not appropriate for Cache-level accuracy, though.),
>  - light-weight (The monitoring overhead is low enough to be applied online
>    while making no impact on the performance of the target workloads.), and
>  - scalable (the upper-bound of the instrumentation overhead is controllable
>    regardless of the size of target workloads.).
> 
> Using this framework, therefore, the kernel's core memory management mechanisms
> such as reclamation and THP can be optimized for better memory management.  The
> experimental memory management optimization works that incurring high
> instrumentation overhead will be able to have another try.  In user space,
> meanwhile, users who have some special workloads will be able to write
> personalized tools or applications for deeper understanding and specialized
> optimizations of their systems.

DAMON will be presented in the next week LPC[1].  To be prepared for a screen
sharing error (if I get no such error, I will do a live-demo), I recorded a
simple demo video.  I would like to share it here to help your easier
understanding of DAMON.

    https://youtu.be/l63eqbVBZRY

[1] https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/7/contributions/659/


Thanks,
SeongJae Park