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SubjectRe: [PATCH v13 04/15] mm/damon: Implement region based sampling
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On 2020-05-25T11:15:01+02:00 SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.com> wrote:

> From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
>
> This commit implements DAMON's basic access check and region based
> sampling mechanisms. This change would seems make no sense, mainly
> because it is only a part of the DAMON's logics. Following two commits
> will make more sense.
>
> Basic Access Check
> ------------------
>
> DAMON basically reports what pages are how frequently accessed. Note
> that the frequency is not an absolute number of accesses, but a relative
> frequency among the pages of the target workloads.
>
> Users can control the resolution of the reports by setting two time
> intervals, ``sampling interval`` and ``aggregation interval``. In
> detail, DAMON checks access to each page per ``sampling interval``,
> aggregates the results (counts the number of the accesses to each page),
> and reports the aggregated results per ``aggregation interval``. For
> the access check of each page, DAMON uses the Accessed bits of PTEs.
>
> This is thus similar to common periodic access checks based access
> tracking mechanisms, which overhead is increasing as the size of the
> target process grows.
>
> Region Based Sampling
> ---------------------
>
> To avoid the unbounded increase of the overhead, DAMON groups a number
> of adjacent pages that assumed to have same access frequencies into a
> region. As long as the assumption (pages in a region have same access
> frequencies) is kept, only one page in the region is required to be
> checked. Thus, for each ``sampling interval``, DAMON randomly picks one
> page in each region and clears its Accessed bit. After one more
> ``sampling interval``, DAMON reads the Accessed bit of the page and
> increases the access frequency of the region if the bit has set
> meanwhile. Therefore, the monitoring overhead is controllable by
> setting the number of regions.
>
> Nonetheless, this scheme cannot preserve the quality of the output if
> the assumption is not kept. Following commit will introduce how we can
> make the guarantee with best effort.
>
> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>

Reviewed-by: Leonard Foerster <foersleo@amazon.de>

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