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diff --git a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst index a20383d01a95..5c465835a44f 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst @@ -163,9 +163,10 @@ assumption (pages in a region have the same access frequencies) is kept, only one page in the region is required to be checked. Thus, for each ``sampling interval``, DAMON randomly picks one page in each region, waits for one ``sampling interval``, checks whether the page is accessed meanwhile, and -increases the access frequency of the region if so. Therefore, the monitoring -overhead is controllable by setting the number of regions. DAMON allows users -to set the minimum and the maximum number of regions for the trade-off. +increases the access frequency counter of the region if so. The counter is +called ``nr_regions`` of the region. Therefore, the monitoring overhead is +controllable by setting the number of regions. DAMON allows users to set the +minimum and the maximum number of regions for the trade-off. This scheme, however, cannot preserve the quality of the output if the assumption is not guaranteed. |