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Users can do data access-aware LRU-lists sorting using 'LRU_PRIO' and 'LRU_DEPRIO' DAMOS actions. However, finding best parameters including the hotness/coldness thresholds, CPU quota, and watermarks could be challenging for some users. To make the scheme easy to be used without complex tuning for common situations, this commit implements a static kernel module called 'DAMON_LRU_SORT' using the 'LRU_PRIO' and 'LRU_DEPRIO' DAMOS actions. It proactively sorts LRU-lists using DAMON with conservatively chosen default values of the parameters. That is, the module under its default parameters will make no harm for common situations but provide some level of efficiency improvements for systems having clear hot/cold access pattern under a level of memory pressure while consuming only a limited small portion of CPU time. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220613192301.8817-9-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>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.