Using DAMON for proactive reclaim
Using DAMON for proactive reclaim
[Kernel] Posted Jul 23, 2021 17:09 UTC (Fri) by corbet
The DAMON patch set was first covered here in early 2020; this work, now in its 34th revision, enables the efficient collection of information about memory-usage patterns on Linux systems. That data can then be used to influence the kernel's memory-management subsystem; one possible way to do that is to more aggressively reclaim memory that is not being used. To that end, DAMON author SeongJae Park is proposing a DAMON-based mechanism to perform user-controllable proactive reclaim.