tree 2f17613756abe65f656e721a69b93dc7557bb910
parent 879c6000e191b61b97e17bce44c4564ee42eb612
author SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> 1708371852 -0800
committer Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 1708739305 -0800

mm/damon/core: set damos_quota->esz as public field and document

Patch series "mm/damon: let DAMOS feeds and tame/auto-tune itself".

The Aim-oriented Feedback-driven DAMOS Aggressiveness Auto-tuning
patchset[1] which has merged since commit 9294a037c015 ("mm/damon/core:
implement goal-oriented feedback-driven quota auto-tuning") made the
mechanism and the policy separated.  That is, users can set a part of
DAMOS control policies without a deep understanding of the mechanism but
just their demands such as SLA.

However, users are still required to do some additional work of manually
collecting their target metric and feeding it to DAMOS.  In the case of
end-users who use DAMON sysfs interface, the context switches between
user-space and kernel-space could also make it inefficient.  The overhead
is supposed to be only trivial in common cases, though.  Meanwhile, in
simple use cases, the target metric could be common system metrics that
the kernel can efficiently self-retrieve, such as memory pressure stall
time (PSI).

Extend DAMOS quota auto-tuning to support multiple types of metrics
including the DAMOS self-retrievable ones, and add support for memory
pressure stall time metric.  Different types of metrics can be supported
in future.  The auto-tuning capability is currently supported for only
users of DAMOS kernel API and DAMON sysfs interface.  Extend the support
to DAMON_RECLAIM.

Patches Sequence
================

First five patches are for helping debugging and fine-tuning existing
quota control features.  The first one (patch 1) exposes the effective
quota that is made with given user inputs to DAMOS kernel API users and
kernel-doc documents.  Following four patches implement (patches 1, 2 and
3) and document (patches 4 and 5) a new DAMON sysfs file that exposes the
value.

Following six patches cleanup and simplify the existing DAMOS quota
auto-tuning code by improving layout of comments and data structures
(patches 6 and 7), supporting common use cases, namely multiple goals
(patches 8, 9 and 10), and simplifying the interface (patch 11).

Then six patches for the main purpose of this patchset follow.  The first
three changes extend the core logic for various target metrics (patch 12),
implement memory pressure stall time-based target metric support (patch
13), and update DAMON sysfs interface to support the new target metric
(patch 14).  Then, documentation updates for the features on design (patch
15), ABI (patch 16), and usage (patch 17) follow.

Last three patches add auto-tuning support on DAMON_RECLAIM.  The patches
implement DAMON_RECLAIM parameters for user-feedback driven quota
auto-tuning (patch 18), memory pressure stall time-driven quota
self-tuning (patch 19), and finally update the DAMON_RECLAIM usage
document for the new parameters (patch 20).

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231130023652.50284-1-sj@kernel.org/


This patch (of 20):

DAMOS allow users to specify the quota as they want in multiple ways
including time quota, size quota, and feedback-based auto-tuning.  DAMOS
makes one effective quota out of the inputs and use it at the end. 
Knowing the current effective quota helps understanding DAMOS' internal
mechanism and fine-tuning quotas.  DAMON kernel API users can get the
information from ->esz field of damos_quota struct, but the field is
marked as private purpose, and not kernel-doc documented.  Make it public
and document.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240219194431.159606-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240219194431.159606-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>