Tests package for DAMON is released under GPL v2

DAMON contains a number of tests based on the kselftest and kunit in its patchset itself. As it is preferred to contain only tests having short runtime in kernel tree, I organized time consuming tests in a package and used it in my company only. Tests could be used as a good document and essential for contributors. For the reason, I promised I will make it open source in the last kernel summit talk (https://linuxplumbersconf....

September 26, 2020 · 1 min · 104 words · Me

Opening a Showcase Website for DAMON

A DAMON showcase website[1] is open. There are the official documentation of DAMON[2], the heatmap format dynamic access pattern of various realistic workloads for heap area[3], mmap()-ed area[4], and stack[5] area, the dynamic working set size distribution[6] and chronological working set size changes[7], and the latest performance test results[8]. [1] https://damonitor.github.io [2] https://damonitor.github.io/doc/html/latest [3] https://damonitor.github.io/test/result/visual/latest/heatmap.0.html [4] https://damonitor.github.io/test/result/visual/latest/heatmap.1.html [5] https://damonitor.github.io/test/result/visual/latest/heatmap.2.html [6] https://damonitor.github.io/test/result/visual/latest/wss_sz.html [7] https://damonitor.github.io/test/result/visual/latest/wss_time.html [8] https://damonitor.github.io/test/result/perf/latest/html/index.html

May 19, 2020 · 1 min · 65 words · Me

DAMON: Data Access Monitor

With increasingly data-intensive workloads and limited DRAM capacity, optimal memory management based on dynamic access patterns is becoming increasingly important. Such mechanisms are only possible if accurate and efficient dynamic access pattern monitoring is available. DAMON is a Data Access MONitoring framework subsystem for the Linux kernel developed for such memory management. It is designed with some key mechanism (refer to Design for the detail) that make it accurate (the monitoring output is useful enough for DRAM level memory management; It might not be appropriate for CPU Cache levels, though), light-weight (the monitoring overhead is low enough to be applied online), and scalable (the upper-bound of the overhead is in constant range regardless of the size of target workloads)....

December 27, 2019 · 9 min · 1710 words · Me