linux-kernel - [PATCH 17/20] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document quota goal metric file

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Message-Id: <20240219194431.159606-18-sj@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 11:44:28 -0800
From: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	damon@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 17/20] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document quota goal metric file

Update DAMON usage document for the quota goal target_metric file.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
index 220ebbde7324..b33eecfd0e90 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ comma (",").
     │ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`quotas <sysfs_quotas>`/ms,bytes,reset_interval_ms,effective_bytes
     │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ weights/sz_permil,nr_accesses_permil,age_permil
     │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`goals <sysfs_schemes_quota_goals>`/nr_goals
-    │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/target_value,current_value
+    │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/target_metric,target_value,current_value
     │ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`watermarks <sysfs_watermarks>`/metric,interval_us,high,mid,low
     │ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`filters <sysfs_filters>`/nr_filters
     │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/type,matching,memcg_id
@@ -366,11 +366,11 @@ number (``N``) to the file creates the number of child directories named ``0``
 to ``N-1``.  Each directory represents each goal and current achievement.
 Among the multiple feedback, the best one is used.
 
-Each goal directory contains two files, namely ``target_value`` and
-``current_value``.  Users can set and get any number to those files to set the
-feedback.  User space main workload's latency or throughput, system metrics
-like free memory ratio or memory pressure stall time (PSI) could be example
-metrics for the values.  Note that users should write
+Each goal directory contains three files, namely ``target_metric``,
+``target_value`` and ``current_value``.  Users can set and get the three
+parameters for the quota auto-tuning goals that specified on the :ref:`design
+doc <damon_design_damos_quota_auto_tuning>` by writing to and reading from each
+of the files.  Note that users should further write
 ``commit_schemes_quota_goals`` to the ``state`` file of the :ref:`kdamond
 directory <sysfs_kdamond>` to pass the feedback to DAMON.
 
-- 
2.39.2