DAMON Yearly Retrospect (2025)

This is also posted to DAMON mailing list. It is a bit late, but let me share my retrospect of DAMON development for 2025, before my memory goes away. The yearly retrospects for 2022 [1], 2023 [2] and 2024 [3] are also available. Summary 2025 was the busiest year for DAMON development of its history. 33 people made 390 commits for DAMON in 2025. Those numbers are 65 % and 157 % increase from those of 2024....

February 22, 2026 · 7 min · 1396 words · Me

DAMON Yearly Retrospect (2024)

This is also posted to DAMON mailing list. After DAMON has upstreamed in 2021, I shared yearly retrospects for 2022 [1] and 2023 [2]. And somehow I forgot to do that for 2024 and 2025. Let me share the retrospect of 2024, before my memory goes away. Summary 2024 was a year that DAMON has been more publicly and widely adopted. AWS published their usage of DAMON as a VLDB paper....

February 16, 2026 · 6 min · 1215 words · Me

Looking back on DAMON development in 2023

This is also posted to DAMON mailing list. Hello, Last year around this time, I shared a humble retrospect of DAMON for 2022[1], which was effectively the first year it had after it was merged in the mainline. As one more year has passed, I’d like to share that again for the second year of DAMON, with some events and statistics of this year’s DAMON development that I was personally interested in....

February 13, 2026 · 10 min · 1955 words · Me

Summary of DAMON Development in 2022

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....

December 29, 2022 · 1 min · 139 words · Me