From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.com>
To: <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/14] Introduce Data Access MONitor (DAMON)
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 12:35:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200302113512.8880-1-sjpark@amazon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200224123047.32506-1-sjpark@amazon.com> (raw)
Hello,
On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 13:30:33 +0100 SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.com> wrote:
> From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
>
> Introduction
> ============
>
> Memory management decisions can be improved if finer data access information is
> available. However, because such finer information usually comes with higher
> overhead, most systems including Linux forgives the potential improvement and
> rely on only coarse information or some light-weight heuristics. The
> pseudo-LRU and the aggressive THP promotions are such examples.
>
> A number of experimental data access pattern awared memory management
> optimizations (refer to 'Appendix A' for more details) say the sacrifices are
> huge. However, none of those has successfully adopted to Linux kernel mainly
> due to the absence of a scalable and efficient data access monitoring
> mechanism. Refer to 'Appendix B' to see the limitations of existing memory
> monitoring mechanisms.
>
> DAMON is a data access monitoring subsystem for the problem. It is 1) accurate
> enough to be used for the DRAM level memory management (a straightforward
> DAMON-based optimization achieved up to 2.55x speedup), 2) light-weight enough
> to be applied online (compared to a straightforward access monitoring scheme,
> DAMON is up to 94.242.42x lighter) and 3) keeps predefined upper-bound overhead
> regardless of the size of target workloads (thus scalable). Refer to 'Appendix
> C' if you interested in how it is possible.
>
> DAMON has mainly designed for the kernel's memory management mechanisms.
> However, because it is implemented as a standalone kernel module and provides
> several interfaces, it can be used by a wide range of users including kernel
> space programs, user space programs, programmers, and administrators. DAMON
> is now supporting the monitoring only, but it will also provide simple and
> convenient data access pattern awared memory managements by itself. Refer to
> 'Appendix D' for more detailed expected usages of DAMON.
I have posted this patchset once per week, but skip this week because there
were no comments in last week and therefore made no change in the patchset.
I think I answered to all previous comments and fixed all bugs previously
found. May I ask some more comments or reviews? If I missed something or
doing wrong, please let me know.
Thanks,
SeongJae Park
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Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-24 12:30 [PATCH v6 00/14] Introduce Data Access MONitor (DAMON) SeongJae Park
2020-02-24 12:30 ` [PATCH v6 01/14] mm: " SeongJae Park
2020-03-10 8:54 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-03-10 11:50 ` SeongJae Park
2020-02-24 12:30 ` [PATCH v6 02/14] mm/damon: Implement region based sampling SeongJae Park
2020-03-10 8:57 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-03-10 11:52 ` SeongJae Park
2020-03-10 15:55 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-03-10 16:22 ` SeongJae Park
2020-03-10 17:39 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-03-12 9:20 ` SeongJae Park
2020-03-13 17:29 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-03-13 20:16 ` SeongJae Park
2020-03-17 11:32 ` SeongJae Park
2020-02-24 12:30 ` [PATCH v6 03/14] mm/damon: Adaptively adjust regions SeongJae Park
2020-03-10 8:57 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-03-10 11:53 ` SeongJae Park
2020-02-24 12:30 ` [PATCH v6 04/14] mm/damon: Apply dynamic memory mapping changes SeongJae Park
2020-03-10 9:00 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-03-10 11:53 ` SeongJae Park
2020-02-24 12:30 ` [PATCH v6 05/14] mm/damon: Implement callbacks SeongJae Park
2020-03-10 9:01 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-03-10 11:55 ` SeongJae Park
2020-02-24 12:30 ` [PATCH v6 06/14] mm/damon: Implement access pattern recording SeongJae Park
2020-03-10 9:01 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-03-10 11:55 ` SeongJae Park
2020-02-24 12:30 ` [PATCH v6 07/14] mm/damon: Implement kernel space API SeongJae Park
2020-03-10 9:01 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-03-10 11:56 ` SeongJae Park
2020-02-24 12:30 ` [PATCH v6 08/14] mm/damon: Add debugfs interface SeongJae Park
2020-03-10 9:02 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-03-10 11:56 ` SeongJae Park
2020-02-24 12:30 ` [PATCH v6 09/14] mm/damon: Add a tracepoint for result writing SeongJae Park
2020-03-10 9:03 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-03-10 11:57 ` SeongJae Park
2020-02-24 12:30 ` [PATCH v6 10/14] tools: Add a minimal user-space tool for DAMON SeongJae Park
2020-02-24 12:30 ` [PATCH v6 11/14] Documentation/admin-guide/mm: Add a document " SeongJae Park
2020-03-10 9:03 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-03-10 11:57 ` SeongJae Park
2020-02-24 12:30 ` [PATCH v6 12/14] mm/damon: Add kunit tests SeongJae Park
2020-02-24 12:30 ` [PATCH v6 13/14] mm/damon: Add user selftests SeongJae Park
2020-02-24 12:30 ` [PATCH v6 14/14] MAINTAINERS: Update for DAMON SeongJae Park
2020-03-02 11:35 ` SeongJae Park [this message]
2020-03-09 10:23 ` Re: [PATCH v6 00/14] Introduce Data Access MONitor (DAMON) SeongJae Park
2020-03-10 17:21 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-03-12 10:07 ` SeongJae Park
2020-03-12 10:43 ` SeongJae Park
2020-03-18 19:52 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-03-19 9:03 ` SeongJae Park
2020-03-23 17:29 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-03-24 8:34 ` SeongJae Park
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