Re: DAMON Release Newsletter for v7.2-rc1

[SJ Park]

On Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:19:03 -0700 SJ Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello community,
> 
> 
> This newsletter covers DAMON features that landed on the mainline, queued for
> the mainline, development statistics and misc events that were interesting to
> me that happened in v7.1-rc1..v7.2-rc1 time period (2026-04-26..2026-06-28).
> 
> The newsletter covering the previous release cycle (v7.0-rc1..v7.1-rc1) is
> also available [1].
> 
> TLDR
> ====
> 
> The last development cycle for DAMON was the busiest cycle of its mainline
> history (~6 years, since 2021 September).  12 Authors landed 106 DAMON patches

s/6 years/5 years/

Sorry, I'm definitely not good at counting.  Sometimes even worse than LLM.

> for a number of changes including 7 new features on the mainline.  A roadmap
> for extending DAMON to utilize AMD IBS, Intel PEBS like h/w features and do
> per-CPUs/threads/reads/writes monitoring is made.
[...]
> The 6.17 development cycle was the busiest DAMON development cycle in history
> (~6 years since 5.15).  This cycle broke the record.

s/6 years/5 years/


Thanks,
SJ

[...]