linux/Documentation/vm/damon/index.rst
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This commit adds documents for DAMON under
`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/` and `Documentation/vm/damon/`.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210716081449.22187-11-sj38.park@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Fernand Sieber <sieberf@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Boehme <markubo@amazon.de>
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Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Leonard Foerster <foersleo@amazon.de>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@amazon.de>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
==========================
DAMON: Data Access MONitor
==========================
DAMON is a data access monitoring framework subsystem for the Linux kernel.
The core mechanisms of DAMON (refer to :doc:`design` for the detail) make it
- *accurate* (the monitoring output is useful enough for DRAM level memory
management; It might not 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).
Using this framework, therefore, the kernel's memory management mechanisms can
make advanced decisions. Experimental memory management optimization works
that incurring high data accesses monitoring overhead could implemented again.
In user space, meanwhile, users who have some special workloads can write
personalized applications for better understanding and optimizations of their
workloads and systems.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
faq
design
api
plans