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Maintaining DAMON (https://damonitor.github.io). All opinions are my own.
I sometimes get confused at DAMON build configs. Maybe some distros enabling DAMON might gone or going through similar problems.

I hence just sent an RFC series for simplifying it by build-enabling DAMON by default.

https://lore.kernel.org/20250512182716.50245-1-sj@kernel.org

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Edited 10 days ago
Based on a feedback from my colleague, we implemented an hkml [1] feature for finding patch mails that need more or no more attentions based on 'Reviewed-by:' tags.

Open mails list using 'hkml list', press 'm' key to open menu, and select 'search mails' item.

[1] https://github.com/sjp38/hackermail

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Researchers found automatically tuning parameters can improve memory tieirng performance by 2x, using DAMON and SK hynix' DAMON-based memory tiering solution as a part of the research.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.18714

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Vlastimil Babka πŸ‡¨πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

I'm sure @sj will be happy to hear that very soon the kernel in @opensuse Tumbleweed and later Leap 16.0 will be built with DAMON enabled!

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@vbabka @opensuse I'm more than happy and exciting to hear this! :D Thank you for sharing this, @vbabka !

Looking forward to more opportunities to help making it more optimum and useful for SUSE users and developers!

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I finally realized that I cannot implement one access pattern visualization that fits all. Hence next DAMON user-space tool release will contain programmable visualization feature. Users can program their access pattern visualization in Python code, as a script or interactively on the Python interpreter.

https://github.com/damonitor/damo/blob/d0eb41035db1a870d482a14087afda0196c5980b/USAGE.md#damo-report-access-programming-visualization

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Edited 26 days ago
Yet another DAMON-citation from a HCDS'25 paper is found. The paper discusses h/w-based CXL coherency management.

https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/497211278/XingandBarbalaceHDCS2025RethinkingApplications_AddressSpace.pdf

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@LWN LWN made an excellent summary of the two DAMON sessions that we had at LSFMM+BPF 2025: https://lwn.net/Articles/1016525/

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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@LWN/114313949278265552
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LWN.net is now @LWN@lwn.net

[$] Preparing DAMON for future memory-management problems

The Data Access MONitor (DAMON) subsystem provides access to detailed memory-management statistics, along with a set of tools for implementing policies based on those statistics. [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1016525/

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DAMON talk for OSSummit North America 2205 has been accepted and scheduled[1]. The talk will present DAMON's two auto-tuning features for access monitoring and access-aware system operations.

[1] https://sched.co/1zfmE

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@brauner @monsieuricon The link didn't work on my web browser, too (the page was saying "page not found"), a few hours ago. It works now, though.
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An EuroSys'25 paper for proactive demotion on tiered memory managment is published. It also shares their evaluation of a DAMON-based tiering approach that is being used by HMSDK.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3689031.3717471

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Edited 1 month ago
MM pull request[1] for Linux 6.15-rc1 is merged. I'd summarize DAMON changes that merged with the pull request as below.

- Monitoring intervals auto-tuning
- Extending DAMOS filter types for hugepage, LRU-[in]active page, and [un]mapped pages
- DAMOS allow filters behavior improvement
- Important cleanups and fixes of code and documents

There are many more interesting changes, too. I highly recommend reading Andrew Morton's great summary on the pull request mail!

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/20250330165732.f4c1493615375623f67e38eb@linux-foundation.org/

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Numbers are numbers, but seeing my name on the "Most active 6.14 developer" list[1] is a grateful moment.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/1013892/

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Vlastimil Babka πŸ‡¨πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

@ljs great timing with the "beers of a feather" session organized and stocked by Rik ;) coincidentally it's only thanks to his commit that this beer mug actually exists

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DAMON Self-Tuned Memory Tiering Shows Nice Improvement For Linux Servers

Linux developer SeongJae Park has posted a set of patches for the Linux kernel's wonderful DAMON code to provide for self-tuned memory tiering that "just works" and is racking up some nice performance wins...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DAMON-Self-Tuned-Memory-Tiering

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Edited 1 month ago
I just posted an RFC patch series for making DAMON-based memory tiering self-tuned and just works. It contains evaluation of DAMON-based memory tiering that shows 4.42 % performance improvement over baseline and ~10% improvement over NUMA Balancing in memory tiering mode under a setup.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/20250320053937.57734-1-sj@kernel.org

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'damo report heatmap' frequently confused users due to its internal map drawing target area selection. I implemented a feature for making it easier to control, and posted a blog for the problem and the new feature: https://damonitor.github.io/posts/why_the_heatmap_is_not_showing_the_expected_access_patterns/

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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

Edited 2 months ago
PSA: please don't use git.kernel.org directly for your CI needs. It is not viable for us to provide enough capacity to withstand dozens of CI nodes all trying to clone linux.git at the same time for multiple CI farms. You *will* get ip-blocked. Please set up a local mirror and hit that instead.
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Edited 2 months ago
I just posted[1] DAMON monitoring intervals auto-tuning patch series without RFC tag. It is now queued on mm-unstable for 6.15-rc1. This version also includes its test results on a real-world server workload. To quote the conclusion part of the evaluation:

"The auto-tuning feature was able to adaptively react to the
dynamic access patterns of the workload and reliably provide consistent
monitoring results without manual human interventions. Also, the
auto-tuning made DAMON consumes only necessary amount of resource for
the required quality."

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/20250303221726.484227-1-sj@kernel.org

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