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From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.com>
To: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.com>,
	SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>, <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v22 03/18] mm/damon: Adaptively adjust regions
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 13:12:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201126121226.18883-1-sjpark@amazon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALvZod6nhJyOh943+EqttG+33ugrkNYxpLM3Gq7U7TFw70dOAA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 07:29:41 -0800 Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 2:01 AM SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
> >
> > Even somehow the initial monitoring target regions are well constructed
> > to fulfill the assumption (pages in same region have similar access
> > frequencies), the data access pattern can be dynamically changed.  This
> > will result in low monitoring quality.  To keep the assumption as much
> > as possible, DAMON adaptively merges and splits each region based on
> > their access frequency.
> >
> > For each ``aggregation interval``, it compares the access frequencies of
> > adjacent regions and merges those if the frequency difference is small.
> > Then, after it reports and clears the aggregated access frequency of
> > each region, it splits each region into two or three regions if the
> > total number of regions will not exceed the user-specified maximum
> > number of regions after the split.
> >
> > In this way, DAMON provides its best-effort quality and minimal overhead
> > while keeping the upper-bound overhead that users set.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
> > Reviewed-by: Leonard Foerster <foersleo@amazon.de>
> 
> The high level comment I have is that kdamond_[merge|split]_regions
> should be part of the abstraction of the target instead of the damon
> context.

Agreed in a high level.  Please refer to my answer to your second suggestion at
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20201126115157.6888-1-sjpark@amazon.com/


Thanks,
SeongJae Park


  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-26 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-20  8:59 [PATCH v22 00/18] Introduce Data Access MONitor (DAMON) SeongJae Park
2020-10-20  8:59 ` [PATCH v22 01/18] mm: " SeongJae Park
2020-11-25 15:29   ` Shakeel Butt
2020-11-26 11:51     ` SeongJae Park
2020-12-08  7:41       ` SeongJae Park
2020-10-20  8:59 ` [PATCH v22 02/18] mm/damon: Implement region based sampling SeongJae Park
2020-11-25 15:29   ` Shakeel Butt
2020-11-26 12:09     ` SeongJae Park
2020-10-20  8:59 ` [PATCH v22 03/18] mm/damon: Adaptively adjust regions SeongJae Park
2020-11-25 15:29   ` Shakeel Butt
2020-11-26 12:12     ` SeongJae Park [this message]
2020-10-20  8:59 ` [PATCH v22 04/18] mm/damon: Track dynamic monitoring target regions update SeongJae Park
2020-11-25 15:29   ` Shakeel Butt
2020-11-26 12:18     ` SeongJae Park
2020-10-20  8:59 ` [PATCH v22 05/18] mm/idle_page_tracking: Make PG_(idle|young) reusable SeongJae Park
2020-11-25 15:30   ` Shakeel Butt
2020-11-26 12:31     ` SeongJae Park
2020-10-20  8:59 ` [PATCH v22 06/18] mm/damon: Implement primitives for the virtual memory address spaces SeongJae Park
2020-11-25 15:30   ` Shakeel Butt
2020-11-26 13:34     ` SeongJae Park
2020-10-20  8:59 ` [PATCH v22 07/18] mm/page_idle: Avoid interferences from concurrent users SeongJae Park
2020-11-25 15:30   ` Shakeel Butt
2020-11-26 13:37     ` SeongJae Park
2020-10-20  8:59 ` [PATCH v22 08/18] mm/damon/primitives: Make coexistable with Idle Page Tracking SeongJae Park
2020-10-20  8:59 ` [PATCH v22 09/18] mm/damon: Add a tracepoint SeongJae Park
2020-10-20  8:59 ` [PATCH v22 10/18] mm/damon: Implement a debugfs-based user space interface SeongJae Park
2020-11-25 15:30   ` Shakeel Butt
2020-11-26 13:45     ` SeongJae Park
2020-10-20  8:59 ` [PATCH v22 11/18] mm/damon/dbgfs: Implement recording feature SeongJae Park
2020-10-20  8:59 ` [PATCH v22 12/18] mm/damon/dbgfs: Export kdamond pid to the user space SeongJae Park
2020-10-20  8:59 ` [PATCH v22 13/18] mm/damon/dbgfs: Support multiple contexts SeongJae Park
2020-10-20  8:59 ` [PATCH v22 14/18] tools: Introduce a minimal user-space tool for DAMON SeongJae Park
2020-10-20  8:59 ` [PATCH v22 15/18] Documentation: Add documents " SeongJae Park
2020-10-20  8:59 ` [PATCH v22 16/18] mm/damon: Add kunit tests SeongJae Park
2020-10-20  8:59 ` [PATCH v22 17/18] mm/damon: Add user space selftests SeongJae Park
2020-10-20  8:59 ` [PATCH v22 18/18] MAINTAINERS: Update for DAMON SeongJae Park
2020-11-11 16:41 ` [PATCH v22 00/18] Introduce Data Access MONitor (DAMON) SeongJae Park
2020-11-17  8:05   ` SeongJae Park
2020-11-17 14:30     ` SeongJae Park

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