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1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2 3========================== 4DAMON: Data Access MONitor 5========================== 6 7DAMON is a data access monitoring framework subsystem for the Linux kernel. 8The core mechanisms of DAMON (refer to :doc:`design` for the detail) make it 9 10 - *accurate* (the monitoring output is useful enough for DRAM level memory 11 management; It might not appropriate for CPU Cache levels, though), 12 - *light-weight* (the monitoring overhead is low enough to be applied online), 13 and 14 - *scalable* (the upper-bound of the overhead is in constant range regardless 15 of the size of target workloads). 16 17Using this framework, therefore, the kernel's memory management mechanisms can 18make advanced decisions. Experimental memory management optimization works 19that incurring high data accesses monitoring overhead could implemented again. 20In user space, meanwhile, users who have some special workloads can write 21personalized applications for better understanding and optimizations of their 22workloads and systems. 23 24.. toctree:: 25 :maxdepth: 2 26 27 faq 28 design 29 api