From: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>, "Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
damon@lists.linux.dev, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 5/7] Docs/mm/damon/design: document damos quota goal complement flag
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:28:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260918142827.85303-6-sj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260918142827.85303-1-sj@kernel.org>
Update DAMON design document for the newly added damos quota goal metric
value complement flag.
Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst | 13 +++++++++----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
index e82390e77a70a..c82be80738c45 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
@@ -702,10 +702,10 @@ There are two such tuning algorithms that users can select as they need.
that the zero quota is a valid quota, and therefore ``qt_exceeds`` :ref:`stat
<damon_design_damos_stat>` will keep increasing in this case.
-The goal can be specified with five parameters, namely ``target_metric``,
-``target_value``, ``current_value``, ``nid`` and ``path``. The auto-tuning
-mechanism tries to make ``current_value`` of ``target_metric`` be same to
-``target_value``.
+The goal can be specified with six parameters, namely ``target_metric``,
+``complement``, ``target_value``, ``current_value``, ``nid`` and ``path``. The
+auto-tuning mechanism tries to make ``current_value`` of ``complement``-ed
+``target_metric`` be same to ``target_value``.
- ``user_input``: User-provided value. Users could use any metric that they
has interest in for the value. Use space main workload's latency or
@@ -733,6 +733,11 @@ mechanism tries to make ``current_value`` of ``target_metric`` be same to
- ``hugepage_mem_bp``: Total huge page to total used memory ratio in bp
(1/10,000).
+``complement`` is a boolean parameter that determines whether to use
+complemented value of the target metric. For example, if ``complement`` is set
+and target metric is ``active_mem_bp``, it is effectively same to
+``inactive_mem_bp``.
+
``nid`` is optionally required for ``node_mem_used_bp``, ``node_mem_free_bp``,
``node_memcg_used_bp``, ``node_memcg_free_bp`` and ``node_eligible_mem_bp`` to
point the specific NUMA node.
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-18 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-18 14:28 [RFC PATCH 0/7] mm/damon: introduce damos quota goal target metric " SJ Park
2026-09-18 14:28 ` [RFC PATCH 1/7] mm/damon/core: introduce damos_quota_goal->complement SJ Park
2026-09-18 14:28 ` [RFC PATCH 2/7] mm/damon: add complement argument to damos_new_quota_goal() SJ Park
2026-09-18 14:28 ` [RFC PATCH 3/7] mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: support quota goal complement flag SJ Park
2026-09-18 14:28 ` [RFC PATCH 4/7] mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: test quota_goal->complement commit SJ Park
2026-09-18 14:28 ` SJ Park [this message]
2026-09-18 14:28 ` [RFC PATCH 6/7] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for quota goal complement file SJ Park
2026-09-18 14:28 ` [RFC PATCH 7/7] Docs/ABI/damon: update for quota goal metric complement sysfs file SJ Park
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