DAMON Quaterly News Letter (2024 Q2)
Hello DAMON community,
Time flies. The second quater of 2024 has passed. Let me take a time to look back what happened to DAMON community in the last three months and share my humble summary with this quaterly news letter.
Highlights of Highlights
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DAMON gained a feature [10] for CXL-based tiered memory management. HacKerMaiL (hkml), a simple mailing tool that DAMON maintainer is developing, made an official commitment [12] to support DAMON community. DAMON has presented and discussed with more people from OSSummit NA [4] and LSF/MM+BPF [7]. It will again be presented and discussed with more folks in September [10,13].
Please read below for more highlights for each month.
April 2024
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DAMO v2.2.8 has released [1] with memory footprint monitoring feature.
DAMON news letter for 2024-Q1 has posted [2].
Using Oracle's awesome kernel configs comparison tool, we found some dsitros that enable DAMON on their kernel [3].
DAMON has presented[4] on Open Source Summit North America 2024. The third in-person DAMON meetup has also held [5] on the conference.
May 2024
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Access/Contiguity-aware Memory Auto-scaling second RFC idea with example implementation is posted [6].
DAMON's status and future plans have shared and discussed on LSFMM+BPF. LWN's summary of the session is available [7].
Memory managment subsystem pull request [8] for Linux 6.10-rc1 that contains DAMOS young page filter has merged.
Beer/Coffee/Tea DAMON meetup has extended [9] for reservation-based ones.
June 2024
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DAMON talk for Open Source Summit Europe 2024 has been accepted and scheduled [10].
SK hynix' patch series titled "DAMON based tiered memory managment for CXL memory" has been merged [11] into mm-unstable tree.
DAMON community got a simple mailing tool called HacKerMaiL (hkml), which is officially committed [12] to support the development workflow.
A session for DAMON at kernel summit 2024 has proposed [13] .
Previous news letters
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- 2024 Q1: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
More Past DAMON News
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If you're interested in a humblie list of more DAMON events that happened in past and curated by DAMON maintainer, please reach out to the project site's news page [14].
References
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[1] https://github.com/awslabs/damo/blob/v2.2.8/USAGE.md#recording-memory-footprints
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/damon/[email protected]/
[3] https://oracle.github.io/kconfigs/?config=UTS_RELEASE&config=DAMON
[4] https://sched.co/1aBOg
[5] https://sched.co/1cP4G
[6] https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
[7] https://lwn.net/Articles/973702/
[8] https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
[9] https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
[10] https://sched.co/1ej2S
[11] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
[12] https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
[13] https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]/
[14] https://sjp38.github.io/post/damon_news/