| 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> |
| --- |
| |
| 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. |
| _ |