From: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
damon@lists.linux.dev, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 09/12] Docs/mm/damon/design: update for max_nr_snapshots
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2025 10:43:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251123184329.85287-10-sj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251123184329.85287-1-sj@kernel.org>
Update DAMON design document for the newly added snapshot level DAMOS
deactivation feature, max_nr_snapshots.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
index 5cc7b7d662be..7fd819b8bbf7 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
@@ -720,6 +720,7 @@ scheme's execution.
- ``qt_exceeds``: Total number of times the quota of the scheme has exceeded.
- ``nr_snapshots``: Total number of DAMON snapshots that the scheme is tried to
be applied.
+- ``max_nr_snapshots``: Upper limit of ``nr_snapshots``.
"A scheme is tried to be applied to a region" means DAMOS core logic determined
the region is eligible to apply the scheme's :ref:`action
@@ -741,6 +742,10 @@ to exclude anonymous pages and the region has only anonymous pages, or if the
action is ``pageout`` while all pages of the region are unreclaimable, applying
the action to the region will fail.
+Unlike normal stats, ``max_nr_snapshots`` is set by users. If it is set as
+non-zero and ``nr_snapshots`` be same to or greater than ``nr_snapshots``, the
+scheme is deactivated.
+
To know how user-space can read the stats via :ref:`DAMON sysfs interface
<sysfs_interface>`, refer to :ref:s`stats <sysfs_stats>` part of the
documentation.
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-23 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-23 18:43 [RFC PATCH 00/12] mm/damos/stat: introduce nr_snapshots, max_nr_snapshots and tracepoint SeongJae Park
2025-11-23 18:43 ` [RFC PATCH 01/12] mm/damon/core: introduce nr_snapshots damos stat SeongJae Park
2025-11-23 18:43 ` [RFC PATCH 02/12] mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: introduce nr_snapshots damos stat file SeongJae Park
2025-11-23 18:43 ` [RFC PATCH 03/12] Docs/mm/damon/design: update for nr_snapshots damos stat SeongJae Park
2025-11-23 18:43 ` [RFC PATCH 04/12] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: " SeongJae Park
2025-11-23 18:43 ` [RFC PATCH 05/12] Docs/ABI/damon: " SeongJae Park
2025-11-23 18:43 ` [RFC PATCH 06/12] mm/damon: update damos kerneldoc for stat field SeongJae Park
2025-11-23 18:43 ` [RFC PATCH 07/12] mm/damon/core: implement max_nr_snapshots SeongJae Park
2025-11-23 18:43 ` [RFC PATCH 08/12] mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: implement max_nr_snapshots file SeongJae Park
2025-11-23 18:43 ` SeongJae Park [this message]
2025-11-23 18:43 ` [RFC PATCH 10/12] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for max_nr_snapshots SeongJae Park
2025-11-23 18:43 ` [RFC PATCH 11/12] Docs/ABI/damon: " SeongJae Park
2025-11-23 18:43 ` [RFC PATCH 12/12] mm/damon/core: add trace point for damos stat per apply interval SeongJae Park
2025-11-24 15:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-11-24 15:37 ` SeongJae Park
2025-11-23 19:54 ` [RFC PATCH 00/12] mm/damos/stat: introduce nr_snapshots, max_nr_snapshots and tracepoint SeongJae Park
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