Commit c6bb975a authored by SeongJae Park's avatar SeongJae Park Committed by Andrew Morton

Docs/mm/damon/faq: remove old questions

Patch series "Docs/mm/damon: Minor fixes and design doc update".

Some of the DAMON documents are outdated, or having minor typos or grammar
erros.  Especially, the design doc has not updated for DAMOS, which is an
important part of DAMON.  Fix the minor issues and update documents.


This patch (of 10):

The first two questions of DAMON faqs have raised when DAMON patches were
first submitted.  More than one year has passed since DAMON patches get
merged in the mainline, and that kind of questions are not asked nowadays.
Remove the questions.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230525214314.5204-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230525214314.5204-2-sj@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarSeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 3af0191a
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Why a new subsystem, instead of extending perf or other user space tools?
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First, because it needs to be lightweight as much as possible so that it can be
used online, any unnecessary overhead such as kernel - user space context
switching cost should be avoided. Second, DAMON aims to be used by other
programs including the kernel. Therefore, having a dependency on specific
tools like perf is not desirable. These are the two biggest reasons why DAMON
is implemented in the kernel space.
Can 'idle pages tracking' or 'perf mem' substitute DAMON?
=========================================================
Idle page tracking is a low level primitive for access check of the physical
address space. 'perf mem' is similar, though it can use sampling to minimize
the overhead. On the other hand, DAMON is a higher-level framework for the
monitoring of various address spaces. It is focused on memory management
optimization and provides sophisticated accuracy/overhead handling mechanisms.
Therefore, 'idle pages tracking' and 'perf mem' could provide a subset of
DAMON's output, but cannot substitute DAMON.
Does DAMON support virtual memory only?
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