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| author | SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> | 2023-05-25 21:43:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2023-06-09 16:25:46 -0700 |
| commit | c6bb975aa60bef4b689f9811d888c79d721077e3 (patch) | |
| tree | ea54342c8421cf84104ffb26781bd873a51b32dd /Documentation/mm | |
| parent | 3af0191a594d5ca5d6d2e3602b5d4284c6835e77 (diff) | |
| download | linux-c6bb975aa60bef4b689f9811d888c79d721077e3.tar.gz | |
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Some of the DAMON documents are outdated, or having minor typos or grammar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.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/mm/damon/faq.rst | 23 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/damon/faq.rst b/Documentation/mm/damon/faq.rst index dde7e2414ee60a..3279dc7a8211ff 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/damon/faq.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/damon/faq.rst @@ -4,29 +4,6 @@ Frequently Asked Questions ========================== -Why a new subsystem, instead of extending perf or other user space tools? -========================================================================= - -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? ======================================= |