linux-kernel - DAMON Quaterly News Letter (2024 Q2)

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Message-Id: <20240701212244.52288-1-sj@kernel.org>
Date: Mon,  1 Jul 2024 14:22:44 -0700
From: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
To: 
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>,
	damon@...ts.linuxdev,
	linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: DAMON Quaterly News Letter (2024 Q2)

Hello DAMON community,

Time flies.  The second quater of 2024 has passed.  Let me take a time to look
back what happened to DAMON community in the last three months and share my
humble summary with this quaterly news letter.

Highlights of Highlights
========================

DAMON gained a feature [10] for CXL-based tiered memory management.  HacKerMaiL
(hkml), a simple mailing tool that DAMON maintainer is developing, made an
official commitment [12] to support DAMON community.  DAMON has presented and
discussed with more people from OSSummit NA [4] and LSF/MM+BPF [7].  It will
again be presented and discussed with more folks in September [10,13].

Please read below for more highlights for each month.

April 2024
==========

DAMO v2.2.8 has released [1] with memory footprint monitoring feature.

DAMON news letter for 2024-Q1 has posted [2].

Using Oracle's awesome kernel configs comparison tool, we found some dsitros
that enable DAMON on their kernel [3].

DAMON has presented[4] on Open Source Summit North America 2024.  The third
in-person DAMON meetup has also held [5] on the conference.

May 2024
========

Access/Contiguity-aware Memory Auto-scaling second RFC idea with example
implementation is posted [6].

DAMON's status and future plans have shared and discussed on LSFMM+BPF.  LWN's
summary of the session is available [7].

Memory managment subsystem pull request [8] for Linux 6.10-rc1 that contains
DAMOS young page filter has merged.

Beer/Coffee/Tea DAMON meetup has extended [9] for reservation-based ones.

June 2024
=========

DAMON talk for Open Source Summit Europe 2024 has been accepted and
scheduled [10].

SK hynix' patch series titled "DAMON based tiered memory managment for CXL
memory" has been merged [11] into mm-unstable tree.

DAMON community got a simple mailing tool called HacKerMaiL (hkml), which is
officially committed [12] to support the development workflow.

A session for DAMON at kernel summit 2024 has proposed [13] .

Previous news letters
=====================

- 2024 Q1: https://lore.kernel.org/20240402191224.92305-1-sj@kernel.org

More Past DAMON News
====================

If you're interested in a humblie list of more DAMON events that happened in
past and curated by DAMON maintainer, please reach out to the project site's
news page [14].

References
==========

[1] https://github.com/awslabs/damo/blob/v2.2.8/USAGE.md#recording-memory-footprints
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/damon/20240402191224.92305-1-sj@kernel.org/
[3] https://oracle.github.io/kconfigs/?config=UTS_RELEASE&config=DAMON
[4] https://sched.co/1aBOg
[5] https://sched.co/1cP4G
[6] https://lore.kernel.org/20240512193657.79298-1-sj@kernel.org
[7] https://lwn.net/Articles/973702/
[8] https://lore.kernel.org/20240517192239.9285edd85f8ef893bb508a61@linux-foundation.org
[9] https://lore.kernel.org/20240519163329.150340-1-sj@kernel.org
[10] https://sched.co/1ej2S
[11] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240614185328.BA2C1C2BD10@smtp.kernel.org/
[12] https://lore.kernel.org/20240621163626.74815-2-sj@kernel.org
[13] https://lore.kernel.org/20240614175504.87365-1-sj@kernel.org/
[14] https://sjp38.github.io/post/damon_news/