.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 =============== Getting Started =============== This document briefly describes how you can use DAMON by demonstrating its default user space tool. Please note that this document describes only a part of its features for brevity. Please refer to the usage `doc `_ of the tool for more details. Prerequisites ============= Kernel ------ You should first ensure your system is running on a kernel built with ``CONFIG_DAMON_*=y``. User Space Tool --------------- For the demonstration, we will use the default user space tool for DAMON, called DAMON Operator (DAMO). It is available at https://github.com/awslabs/damo. The examples below assume that ``damo`` is on your ``$PATH``. It's not mandatory, though. Because DAMO is using the sysfs interface (refer to :doc:`usage` for the detail) of DAMON, you should ensure :doc:`sysfs ` is mounted. Recording Data Access Patterns ============================== The commands below record the memory access patterns of a program and save the monitoring results to a file. :: $ git clone https://github.com/sjp38/masim $ cd masim; make; ./masim ./configs/zigzag.cfg & $ sudo damo record -o damon.data $(pidof masim) The first two lines of the commands download an artificial memory access generator program and run it in the background. The generator will repeatedly access two 100 MiB sized memory regions one by one. You can substitute this with your real workload. The last line asks ``damo`` to record the access pattern in the ``damon.data`` file. Visualizing Recorded Patterns ============================= You can visualize the pattern in a heatmap, showing which memory region (x-axis) got accessed when (y-axis) and how frequently (number).:: $ sudo damo report heats --heatmap stdout 22222222222222222222222222222222222222211111111111111111111111111111111111111100 44444444444444444444444444444444444444434444444444444444444444444444444444443200 44444444444444444444444444444444444444433444444444444444444444444444444444444200 33333333333333333333333333333333333333344555555555555555555555555555555555555200 33333333333333333333333333333333333344444444444444444444444444444444444444444200 22222222222222222222222222222222222223355555555555555555555555555555555555555200 00000000000000000000000000000000000000288888888888888888888888888888888888888400 00000000000000000000000000000000000000288888888888888888888888888888888888888400 33333333333333333333333333333333333333355555555555555555555555555555555555555200 88888888888888888888888888888888888888600000000000000000000000000000000000000000 88888888888888888888888888888888888888600000000000000000000000000000000000000000 33333333333333333333333333333333333333444444444444444444444444444444444444443200 00000000000000000000000000000000000000288888888888888888888888888888888888888400 [...] # access_frequency: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 # x-axis: space (139728247021568-139728453431248: 196.848 MiB) # y-axis: time (15256597248362-15326899978162: 1 m 10.303 s) # resolution: 80x40 (2.461 MiB and 1.758 s for each character) You can also visualize the distribution of the working set size, sorted by the size.:: $ sudo damo report wss --range 0 101 10 # # target_id 18446632103789443072 # avr: 107.708 MiB 0 0 B | | 10 95.328 MiB |**************************** | 20 95.332 MiB |**************************** | 30 95.340 MiB |**************************** | 40 95.387 MiB |**************************** | 50 95.387 MiB |**************************** | 60 95.398 MiB |**************************** | 70 95.398 MiB |**************************** | 80 95.504 MiB |**************************** | 90 190.703 MiB |********************************************************* | 100 196.875 MiB |***********************************************************| Using ``--sortby`` option with the above command, you can show how the working set size has chronologically changed.:: $ sudo damo report wss --range 0 101 10 --sortby time # # target_id 18446632103789443072 # avr: 107.708 MiB 0 3.051 MiB | | 10 190.703 MiB |***********************************************************| 20 95.336 MiB |***************************** | 30 95.328 MiB |***************************** | 40 95.387 MiB |***************************** | 50 95.332 MiB |***************************** | 60 95.320 MiB |***************************** | 70 95.398 MiB |***************************** | 80 95.398 MiB |***************************** | 90 95.340 MiB |***************************** | 100 95.398 MiB |***************************** | Data Access Pattern Aware Memory Management =========================================== Below command makes every memory region of size >=4K that has not accessed for >=60 seconds in your workload to be swapped out. :: $ sudo damo schemes --damos_access_rate 0 0 --damos_sz_region 4K max \ --damos_age 60s max --damos_action pageout \