I will have a talk at the Open Source Summit North America 2024

DAMON talk for OSSummit North America 2024 has been accepted and scheduled. The talk will present DAMOS auto-tuning and hopefully, more new DAMO features. The features are still under development, but hopefully, the power of presentation-driven development will make it. ;) Looking forward to meeting you there!

February 14, 2024 · 1 min · 47 words · Me

LKML News v6.8-rc5

[PATCH v3] cgroup2: New memory.max.effective like cgroup1 hierarchical_memory_limit (Jan Kratochvil) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZctiM5RintD_D0Lt@host1.jankratochvil.net Unlike cgroup v1, which was able to find effective memory limit using hierarchical_memorylimit and hierarchical_memsw_limit lines, cgoup v2 doesn’t have such hierarchical information, so need to read all files in the hierarchy to know the effective memory limit. This patchset adds memory.max.effective and memory.swap.max.effective to let users easily get the information. [PATCH v3 00/35] Memory allocation profiling (Suren Baghdasaryan) https://lkml....

February 13, 2024 · 2 min · 359 words · Me

Perfbook 2nd edition translation is complete

After about 8 years of progress on my little hobby project[1], the Korean translation of Paul E. McKenney ’s book, I’m marking it as completed a humble milestone[2]. It was a very fun and informative journey. [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/perfbook.git/commit/?id=edbfcdee0460 [2] https://lore.kernel.org/perfbook/20240211175355.4986-1-sj38.park@gmail.com/

February 11, 2024 · 1 min · 40 words · Me

LKML News v6.8-rc4

[PATCH] mm/cma: Add sysfs file ‘release_pages_success’ (Anshuman Khandual) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240206045731.472759-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com This patch adds a new sysfs file for tracking the number of successfully released pages from a given CMA heap area. It aims to be hulpful at determining available active CMA pages. [PATCH v2] mm/demotion: print demotion targets (Li Zhijian) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240206020151.605516-1-lizhijian@fujitsu.com Li Zhijian sent a patch for printing demotion target information in case of fallback for unmet requirements on the target node, directly to the kernel log....

February 6, 2024 · 2 min · 325 words · Me

LKML News v6.8-rc3

[GIT PULL] hotfixes for 6.8-rc3 (Andrew Morton) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240128232759.7535e6774bec152556fb9730@linux-foundation.org Andrew Morton sent a hotfixes pull request to Linus Torvalds. [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Reclaiming & documenting page flags (Matthew Wilcox) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Zbcn-P4QKgBhyxdO@casper.infradead.org Matthew proposes yet another LSFMM topic for discussing what page flags actually mean altogether, for better documentation. [PATCH v7 0/1] mm: report per-page metadata information (Sourav Panda) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240129224204.1812062-1-souravpanda@google.com Sourav from Google posted a patch for adding a new field on /proc/meminfo and /sys/devices/system/node/nodeN/vmstat called PageMetadata and nr_page_metadata respectively, which can helps understand how much memory are being used for page metadata....

January 30, 2024 · 2 min · 426 words · Me