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    mm/damon/schemes: activate schemes based on a watermarks mechanism · ee801b7d
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    DAMON-based operation schemes need to be manually turned on and off.  In
    some use cases, however, the condition for turning a scheme on and off
    would depend on the system's situation.  For example, schemes for
    proactive pages reclamation would need to be turned on when some memory
    pressure is detected, and turned off when the system has enough free
    memory.
    
    For easier control of schemes activation based on the system situation,
    this introduces a watermarks-based mechanism.  The client can describe
    the watermark metric (e.g., amount of free memory in the system),
    watermark check interval, and three watermarks, namely high, mid, and
    low.  If the scheme is deactivated, it only gets the metric and compare
    that to the three watermarks for every check interval.  If the metric is
    higher than the high watermark, the scheme is deactivated.  If the
    metric is between the mid watermark and the low watermark, the scheme is
    activated.  If the metric is lower than the low watermark, the scheme is
    deactivated again.  This is to allow users fall back to traditional
    page-granularity mechanisms.
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211019150731.16699-12-sj@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarSeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
    Cc: Amit Shah <amit@kernel.org>
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
    Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
    Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
    Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.com>
    Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
    Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
    Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
    Cc: Leonard Foerster <foersleo@amazon.de>
    Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
    Cc: Markus Boehme <markubo@amazon.de>
    Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
    Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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