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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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DAMON: Data Access MONitor
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DAMON is a data access monitoring framework subsystem for the Linux kernel.
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The core mechanisms of DAMON (refer to :doc:`design` for the detail) make it
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- *accurate* (the monitoring output is useful enough for DRAM level memory
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management; It might not appropriate for CPU Cache levels, though),
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- *light-weight* (the monitoring overhead is low enough to be applied online),
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and
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- *scalable* (the upper-bound of the overhead is in constant range regardless
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of the size of target workloads).
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Using this framework, therefore, the kernel's memory management mechanisms can
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make advanced decisions. Experimental memory management optimization works
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that incurring high data accesses monitoring overhead could implemented again.
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In user space, meanwhile, users who have some special workloads can write
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personalized applications for better understanding and optimizations of their
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workloads and systems.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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faq
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design
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api
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plans
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