DAMON for Write-only or Given CPUs-only Monitoring

From the very early days of DAMON, there were attempts to extend it for cpus-aware monitoring and write-only monitoring. In 2022, Xin Hao proposed extending DAMON for NUMA access statistics. In 2022 and 2025, Pedro Demarchi Gomes proposed extending DAMON for writes-only monitoring. Those proposals are not yet upstreamed though. We continued similar DAMON extension discussions publicly and privately, with multiple parties, though. I was recently taking some time on these, and happy to announce the first working prototype for the extensions....

August 3, 2025 · 3 min · 495 words · Me