DAMON checks the access to each region for every sampling interval, increase the counter of the region, namely nr_accesses if the access was made, and reset the counter for every aggregation interval. The counter is exposed to users to be used as a metric showing the access rate (frequency) of each region. In other words, DAMON provides access rate of each region in every aggregation interval. The aggregation avoids temporal access pattern changes make things confusing. However, this also makes many DAMON-based operations to need to be aligned to the aggregation interval. This can restrict the flexibility and speed of DAMON applications, especially when the aggregation interval is huge.

To provide the monitoring results in finer-grained timing with handling of temporal access pattern change, this patchset implements a pseudo-moving sum based access rate metric. It is pseudo-moving sum because strict moving sum implementation would need to keep every last time window values, and that could incur high overhead. Especially in case of the nr_accesses, since the sampling interval and aggregation interval can arbitrarily set and the past values should be maintained for every region, it could be risky. The pseudo-moving sum assumes there were no temporal access pattern change in last discrete time window to remove the needs for keeping the list of the last time window values. As a result, it beocmes not strict moving sum implementation, but provides a reasonable accuracy.

Also, it keeps a property of the moving sum. That is, the moving sum becomes same to discrete-window based sum at the time that aligns to the time window. Hence, using the pseudo moving sum based nr_accesses makes no change to users who collect the value for every aggregation interval.

SeongJae Park (8): mm/damon/core: define and use a dedicated function for region access rate update mm/damon/vaddr: call damon_update_region_access_rate() always mm/damon/core: implement a pseudo-moving sum function mm/damon/core-test: add a unit test for damon_moving_sum() mm/damon/core: introduce nr_accesses_bp mm/damon/core: use pseudo-moving sum for nr_accesses_bp mm/damon/core: skip updating nr_accesses_bp for each aggregation interval mm/damon/core: mark damon_moving_sum() as a static function

include/linux/damon.h | 16 +++++++++- mm/damon/core-test.h | 21 ++++++++++++ mm/damon/core.c | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ mm/damon/paddr.c | 11 +++---- mm/damon/vaddr.c | 22 +++++++------ 5 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

base-commit: 85bb49ddd3983b85ab98ad50a69ca1c7380fc63a