[RFC PATCH] mm/damon/ops-common: use nr_accesses moving sum for quota score
From: SJ Park
Date: Sat Jul 18 2026 - 14:02:07 EST
Since commit 42f994b71404 ("mm/damon/core: implement scheme-specific
apply interval"), DAMOS scheme can be applied at any time. At that
time, nr_accesses may not be fully aggregated. But the quota
prioritization score is calculated using the not fully aggregated count.
As a result, the performance of DAMOS could be degraded. Fix by using
damon_nr_accesses_mvsum() instead.
The user impact is suboptimum DAMOS performance under certain setups.
The issue was there from the beginning of the setup availability. Hence
it was the baseline for the setup. Probably that's why people didn't
notice the suboptimality so far.
Fixes: 42f994b71404 ("mm/damon/core: implement scheme-specific apply interval")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 6.7.x
Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Given the user impact, this is not an urgent hotfix in my opinion. This
is rather a good improvement that is better to eventually be merged into
stable kernels, though.
mm/damon/ops-common.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/damon/ops-common.c b/mm/damon/ops-common.c
index de9a104e88321..e59f77eca83b2 100644
--- a/mm/damon/ops-common.c
+++ b/mm/damon/ops-common.c
@@ -111,8 +111,9 @@ int damon_hot_score(struct damon_ctx *c, struct damon_region *r,
unsigned int age_weight = s->quota.weight_age;
int hotness;
- freq_subscore = r->nr_accesses * DAMON_MAX_SUBSCORE /
- damon_nr_samples_per_aggr(&c->attrs);
+ freq_subscore = mult_frac(damon_nr_accesses_mvsum(r, c),
+ DAMON_MAX_SUBSCORE,
+ damon_nr_samples_per_aggr(&c->attrs));
age_in_sec = (unsigned long)r->age * c->attrs.aggr_interval / 1000000;
if (age_in_sec)
base-commit: 6f1af14da2daf85f73375ffcabcf82255970e2b5
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2.47.3