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This post provides lists of publications and presentations that cover DAMON. Featured Publications and Talks There are quite amount of publications and talks. Below are featured ones for people who unsure what among the resources to use. Academic papers For people who more familiar to academic papers, DAMON papers for Middleware'19 Industry and HPDC'22 are recommended to read and/or cite. The paper for Middleware'19 covers DAMON’s monitoring mechanisms and access pattern profiling-guided optimizations....

Below is a list of news around DAMON project. This list is not exhaustive but just a DAMON maintainer’s collection of news. If you find a news that should be added to this list, please let us know at sj@kernel.org and/or damon@lists.linux.dev. 2026 2026-06-28: DAMON news letter for 7.2-rc1 release cycle is posted. 2026-04-28: DAMON news letter for 7.1-rc1 release cycle is posted. 2026-04-26: Data attributes monitoring RFC patch series is posted....

This document helps you estimating the amount of benefit that you could get from DAMON-based system optimizations, and describes how you could achieve it. Check The Signs No optimization can provide same extent of benefit to every case. Therefore you should first guess how much improvements you could get using DAMON. If some of below conditions match your situation, you could consider using DAMON. Low IPC and High Cache Miss Ratios....

DAMON is lightweight. It increases system memory usage by 0.39% and slows target workloads down by 1.16%. DAMON is accurate and useful for memory management optimizations. An experimental DAMON-based operation scheme for THP, namely ’ethp’, removes 76.15% of THP memory overheads while preserving 51.25% of THP speedup. Another experimental DAMON-based ‘proactive reclamation’ implementation, namely ‘prcl’, reduces 93.38% of residential sets and 23.63% of system memory footprint while incurring only 1.22% runtime overhead in the best case (parsec3/freqmine)....

A summary of DAMON development in 2022 has posted: https://lore.kernel.org/damon/20221229171209.162356-1-sj@kernel.org/ 2022 was a year of active and healthy DAMON development. Seven new DAMON major features were delivered to users. Some of those were featured in articles and academic papers. It was possible thanks to the DAMON community. The community has expanded with its own mailing list and an open bi-weekly chat series. 40 people contributed their great code to DAMON via making their 275 commits merged into the mainline....

I realized I didn’t introduce a good, intuitive example use case of DAMON[0] for profiling so far, though DAMON is not for only profiling. One straightforward and realistic usage of DAMON as a profiling tool would be recording the monitoring results with callstack and visualize those by timeline together. For example, below shows that visualization for a realistic workload, namely ‘fft’ in SPLASH-2X benchmark suite. The upper-most graph shows how DAMON-detected working set size of the workload (y-axis) changes by time (x-axis)....

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....