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From: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Subject: Docs/mm/damon/design: explicitly introduce ``nr_accesses``
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2023 02:29:22 +0000
The design document is explaining about the access tracking mechanism
and the access rate counter (nr_accesses), but not directly mentions the
name. Add a sentence for making it clear.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907022929.91361-5-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst~docs-mm-damon-design-explicitly-introduce-nr_accesses
+++ a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
@@ -163,9 +163,10 @@ assumption (pages in a region have the s
one page in the region is required to be checked. Thus, for each ``sampling
interval``, DAMON randomly picks one page in each region, waits for one
``sampling interval``, checks whether the page is accessed meanwhile, and
-increases the access frequency of the region if so. Therefore, the monitoring
-overhead is controllable by setting the number of regions. DAMON allows users
-to set the minimum and the maximum number of regions for the trade-off.
+increases the access frequency counter of the region if so. The counter is
+called ``nr_regions`` of the region. Therefore, the monitoring overhead is
+controllable by setting the number of regions. DAMON allows users to set the
+minimum and the maximum number of regions for the trade-off.
This scheme, however, cannot preserve the quality of the output if the
assumption is not guaranteed.
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