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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/lru_sort.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/lru_sort.rst index c09cace80651..72a943202676 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/lru_sort.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/lru_sort.rst @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ that is built with ``CONFIG_DAMON_LRU_SORT=y``. To let sysadmins enable or disable it and tune for the given system, DAMON_LRU_SORT utilizes module parameters. That is, you can put ``damon_lru_sort.<parameter>=<value>`` on the kernel boot command line or write -proper values to ``/sys/modules/damon_lru_sort/parameters/<parameter>`` files. +proper values to ``/sys/module/damon_lru_sort/parameters/<parameter>`` files. Below are the description of each parameter. @@ -211,6 +211,28 @@ End of target memory region in physical address. The end physical address of memory region that DAMON_LRU_SORT will do work against. By default, biggest System RAM is used as the region. +addr_unit +--------- + +A scale factor for memory addresses and bytes. + +This parameter is for setting and getting the :ref:`address unit +<damon_design_addr_unit>` parameter of the DAMON instance for DAMON_RECLAIM. + +``monitor_region_start`` and ``monitor_region_end`` should be provided in this +unit. For example, let's suppose ``addr_unit``, ``monitor_region_start`` and +``monitor_region_end`` are set as ``1024``, ``0`` and ``10``, respectively. +Then DAMON_LRU_SORT will work for 10 KiB length of physical address range that +starts from address zero (``[0 * 1024, 10 * 1024)`` in bytes). + +Stat parameters having ``bytes_`` prefix are also in this unit. For example, +let's suppose values of ``addr_unit``, ``bytes_lru_sort_tried_hot_regions`` and +``bytes_lru_sorted_hot_regions`` are ``1024``, ``42``, and ``32``, +respectively. Then it means DAMON_LRU_SORT tried to LRU-sort 42 KiB of hot +memory and successfully LRU-sorted 32 KiB of the memory in total. + +If unsure, use only the default value (``1``) and forget about this. + kdamond_pid ----------- @@ -283,7 +305,7 @@ doesn't make progress and therefore the free memory rate becomes lower than 20%, it asks DAMON_LRU_SORT to do nothing again, so that we can fall back to the LRU-list based page granularity reclamation. :: - # cd /sys/modules/damon_lru_sort/parameters + # cd /sys/module/damon_lru_sort/parameters # echo 500 > hot_thres_access_freq # echo 120000000 > cold_min_age # echo 10 > quota_ms |