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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 4/5] Docs/mm/damon/design: document the goal-based quota tuner selections
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:23:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260212062314.69961-5-sj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260212062314.69961-1-sj@kernel.org>

Document the newly added goal-based quota tuner selection feature.
Provide the list of the available tuner with descriptions of their
behaviors and when those can be used.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
index dd64f5d7f3193..28d932ceaf7ed 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
@@ -564,6 +564,18 @@ aggressiveness (the quota) of the corresponding scheme.  For example, if DAMOS
 is under achieving the goal, DAMOS automatically increases the quota.  If DAMOS
 is over achieving the goal, it decreases the quota.
 
+There are two such tuning algorithms that users can select as they need.
+
+- ``consist``: A proportional feedback loop based algorithm.  Tries to find an
+  optimum quota that should be consistently kept, to keep achieving the goal.
+  Useful for kernel-only operation on dynamic and long-running environments.
+  This is the default selection.  If unsure, use this.
+- ``temporal``: More straightforward algorithm.  Tries to achieve the goal as
+  fast as possible, using maximum allowed quota, but only for a temporal short
+  time.  When the quota is under-achieved, this algorithm keeps tuning quota to
+  a maximum allowed one.  Once the quota is [over]-achieved, this sets the
+  quota zero.  Useful for deterministic control required environments.
+
 The goal can be specified with five parameters, namely ``target_metric``,
 ``target_value``, ``current_value``, ``nid`` and ``path``.  The auto-tuning
 mechanism tries to make ``current_value`` of ``target_metric`` be same to
-- 
2.47.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-02-12  6:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-12  6:23 [RFC PATCH 0/5] mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota tuning algorithms SeongJae Park
2026-02-12  6:23 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] mm/damon/core: introduce damos_quota_goal_tuner SeongJae Park
2026-02-12  6:23 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] mm/damon/core: introduce DAMOS_QUOTA_GOAL_TUNER_TEMPORAL SeongJae Park
2026-02-12  6:23 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: implement quotas->goal_tuner file SeongJae Park
2026-02-12  6:23 ` SeongJae Park [this message]
2026-02-12  6:23 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document goal_tuner sysfs file SeongJae Park

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