I will have a talk at the Open Source Summit North America 2025

DAMON talk for OSSummit North America 2025 has been accepted and scheduled. The title of the talk is “Self-Driving DAMON/S: Controlled and Automated Access-aware Efficient Systems”. It will present DAMON’s two auto-tuning features for access monitoring and access-aware system operations.

April 7, 2025 · 1 min · 40 words · Me

LKML News v6.15-rc1

[GIT PULL] MM updates for 6.15-rc1 (Andrew Morton) https://lore.kernel.org/20250330165732.f4c1493615375623f67e38eb@linux-foundation.org Andrew Morton sent MM pull requests for 6.15-rc1 to Linus Torvalds. mm.git grew a branch (Andrew Morton) https://lore.kernel.org/20250401030418.6b9e3b048eacc05d1cdeeffd@linux-foundation.org Andrew announces a new branch on mm.git, called mm-new. He explains what it will be, and asks Stephen to continue adding mm-unstable to next while not adding mm-new. [PATCH 0/2] Implement numa node notifier (Oscar Salvador) https://lore.kernel.org/20250401092716.537512-1-osalvador@suse.de Oscar posted a patchset for extending memory notifier for only NUMA state changes....

March 31, 2025 · 2 min · 303 words · Me

I will have two sessions for DAMON at LSFMM+BPF 2025

I will present and discuss about the current status and future plans of DAMON, and any requirements to DAMON for more access-aware memory management kernel subsystem of future in Linux Storage/File System/Memory Management/BPF (LSFMM+BPF) 2025. The title of the talks are “DAMON Updates and Plans: Monitoring Parameters Auot-tuning and Memory Tiering” and “DAMON Requirements for Access-aware MM of Future”, respectively. Detailed schedules can be found from the below Google doc spreadsheet....

March 22, 2025 · 1 min · 72 words · Me

LKML News v6.14

[RFC v1 0/3] Live Update Orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin) https://lore.kernel.org/20250320024011.2995837-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Pasha posted an RFC patch series for Linux kernel live update that uses kexec hand over as a way to preserve memory state from old kernel. [GIT PULL] slab updates for 6.15 (Vlastimil Babka) https://lore.kernel.org/2f7985a8-0460-42de-9af0-4f966b937695@suse.cz Vlastimil posted Slab pull request for Linux v6.15 to Linus. [PATCH v5 00/16] kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO) (Changyuan Lyu) https://lore.kernel.org/20250320015551.2157511-1-changyuanl@google.com Changyuan posted the fifth version of kexec handover patch series....

March 20, 2025 · 1 min · 194 words · Me

LKML News v6.14-rc7

[PATCH v2 00/11] cgroup v1 deprecation messages (Michal Kountny) https://lore.kernel.org/20250311123640.530377-1-mkoutny@suse.com Michal categorizes and wordsmith memcg deprecation warning messages. [RFC 0/5] track memory used by balloon drivers (Nico Pache) https://lore.kernel.org/20250312000700.184573-1-npache@redhat.com Nic posted an RFC patch series that adding a counter to track how many pages are reclaimed by the balloon driver. [PATCH 0/5] mm: reliable huge page allocator (Johannes Weiner) https://lore.kernel.org/20250313210647.1314586-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Johannes posted a patch series for making huge page allocatioin more reliable by making allocator, reclaim, and compaction code try harder to avoid fragmentation....

March 11, 2025 · 1 min · 114 words · Me