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diff --git a/Documentation/mm/damon/index.rst b/Documentation/mm/damon/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..48c0bbff98b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/mm/damon/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +.. 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 |