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                <h1 class="header-title">DAMON: Data Access Monitor</h1>
                
                
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    <li><a href="#demo-video">Demo Video</a></li>
    <li><a href="#demo-screenshot">Demo Screenshot</a></li>
    <li><a href="#recent-news">Recent News</a></li>
    <li><a href="#getting-started">Getting Started</a></li>
    <li><a href="#install">Install</a></li>
    <li><a href="#source-code">Source Code</a></li>
    <li><a href="#user-space-tool">User-space Tool</a></li>
    <li><a href="#tests-package">Tests Package</a></li>
    <li><a href="#official-document">Official Document</a></li>
    <li><a href="#showcase-website">Showcase Website</a></li>
    <li><a href="#evaluation-results">Evaluation Results</a></li>
    <li><a href="#damon-based-system-optimization-guide">DAMON-based System Optimization Guide</a></li>
    <li><a href="#profile-guided-optimization-example">Profile-Guided Optimization Example</a></li>
    <li><a href="#community">Community</a></li>
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                <p>With increasingly data-intensive workloads and limited DRAM capacity, optimal
memory management based on dynamic access patterns is becoming increasingly
important. Such mechanisms are only possible if accurate and efficient dynamic
access pattern monitoring is available.</p>
<p>DAMON is a Data Access MONitoring framework subsystem for the Linux kernel
developed for such memory management.  It is designed with some key mechanism
(refer to <a href="https://docs.kernel.org/mm/damon/design.html">Design</a> for the
detail) that make it</p>
<ul>
<li>accurate (the monitoring output is useful enough for DRAM level memory
management; It might not be appropriate for CPU Cache levels, though),</li>
<li>light-weight (the monitoring overhead is low enough to be applied online),
and</li>
<li>scalable (the upper-bound of the overhead is in constant range regardless of
the size of target workloads).</li>
</ul>
<p>Therefore, DAMON can be used to develop memory management based on any access
pattern. To make it easier to develop such systems, DAMON provides a feature
called DAMON-based Operation Schemes (DAMOS). This allows DAMON users to
develop and execute access-aware memory management without code but with a
simple setup.</p>
<p>Simple mechanisms based on DAMOS can
<a href="https://www.amazon.science/publications/daos-data-access-aware-operating-system">achieve</a>
up to 12% performance improvement and 91% memory savings.  Detailed evaluation
of DAMON and DAMON-based system optimizations are available at another
<a href="https://damonitor.github.io/posts/damon_evaluation/">post</a>.</p>
<p>DAMON is also currently being used in real-world products including AWS
<a href="https://www.amazon.science/publications/resource-management-in-aurora-serverless">Aurora Serverless v2</a>
and SK hynix <a href="https://github.com/skhynix/hmsdk/tree/hmsdk-v2.0">HMSDK v2</a>.</p>
<h2 id="demo-video">Demo Video</h2>
<p><img src="/img/damo_monitor_water_nsquared.gif" alt="damo monitor for water_nsquared"></p>

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<h2 id="demo-screenshot">Demo Screenshot</h2>
<p><img src="/img/masim_stairs_snapshot.png" alt="masim stairs snapshot">
<img src="/img/masim_stairs_heatmap_ascii.png" alt="masim stairs heatmap in ascii"></p>
<h2 id="recent-news">Recent News</h2>
<p>Below are only a short list of recent news.  For <strong>complete list of the news</strong>,
please refer to a dedicated <a href="https://damonitor.github.io/posts/damon_news/">post</a>.</p>
<p><em>2025-04-10</em>: LWN made an excellent
<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1016525/">summary</a> of the two DAMON sessions that we
had at LSFMM+BPF 2025.</p>
<p><em>2025-04-07</em>: DAMON talk for OSSummit North America 2025 has been accepted and
<a href="https://sched.co/1zfmE">scheduled</a>.</p>
<p><em>2025-04-01</em>: An EuroSys'25
<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3689031.3717471">paper</a> for proactive demotion
on tiered memory managment is published.  It also shares evaluations of a
DAMON-based tiering approach that is being used by HMSDK.</p>
<p><em>2025-04-01</em>: MM
<a href="https://lore.kernel.org/20250330165732.f4c1493615375623f67e38eb@linux-foundation.org/">pull request</a>
for Linux 6.15-rc1 including below major DAMON changes is merged.</p>
<ul>
<li>Monitoring intervals auto-tuning</li>
<li>Extending DAMOS filter types for hugepage, LRU-[in]active page, and
[un]mapped pages</li>
<li>DAMOS allow filters behavior improvement</li>
<li>Important cleanups and fixes of code and documents</li>
</ul>
<p><em>2025-03-20</em>: DAMON session on LSF/MM/BPF 2025 has been
<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PgjzaPOnIHgRIfqgwDNiftY5Xr6aU3NLWtDs7zFoIvc/edit?gid=1852749899#gid=1852749899">scheduled</a>.</p>
<h2 id="getting-started">Getting Started</h2>
<p>You can start using DAMON by</p>
<ul>
<li>installing <a href="#install">DAMON-enabled kernel</a> and its
<a href="#user-space-tool">user-space tool</a>,</li>
<li>following the <a href="https://github.com/damonitor/damo#getting-started">tutorial</a> of
the user-space tool, and</li>
<li>run the automated <a href="#tests-package">tests suite</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>By following those, you will be able to know if DAMON works on your machine and
how you can use it.</p>
<p>You can also <a href="#contribution">participate</a> in the development if you&rsquo;re
interested.</p>
<h2 id="install">Install</h2>
<p>DAMON is implemented in the Linux kernel, so you should install DAMON-enabled
Linux kernel to use it.  To check if you&rsquo;re already running DAMON-enabled
kernel, you could:</p>
<pre><code>$ if grep -q '^CONFIG_DAMON=y' /boot/config-$(uname -r);
then
    echo &quot;installed&quot;
else
    echo &quot;not installed&quot;
fi
</code></pre>
<p>As of 2024-09-23, kernels of Linux distros including Amazon Linux, Android,
Arch, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, and Oracle Linux are known to have enabled DAMON.</p>
<p>You could further find a list of DAMON-enabled Linux kernels from Oracle&rsquo;s
kconfigs
<a href="https://oracle.github.io/kconfigs/?config=UTS_RELEASE&amp;config=DAMON">tool</a>.
The tool doesn&rsquo;t support every distros at the moment, though.</p>
<p>If your package system doesn&rsquo;t support DAMON-enabled kernel, you can
fetch a DAMON-merged Linux kernel <a href="#source-code">source tree</a>, build, and
install it.  Note that you should enable kernel configuration options for
DAMON, depending on your demands.  For example:</p>
<pre><code>$ cd $THE_FETCHED_DAMON_KERNEL_SOURCE_TREE
$ make olddefconfig
$ echo 'CONFIG_DAMON=y' &gt;&gt; ./.config
$ echo 'CONFIG_DAMON_VADDR=y' &gt;&gt; ./.config
$ echo 'CONFIG_DAMON_PADDR=y' &gt;&gt; ./.config
$ echo 'CONFIG_DAMON_SYSFS=y' &gt;&gt; ./.config
$ echo 'CONFIG_DAMON_DBGFS=y' &gt;&gt; ./.config
$ echo 'CONFIG_DAMON_RECLAIM=y' &gt;&gt; ./.config
$ echo 'CONFIG_DAMON_LRU_SORT=y' &gt;&gt; ./.config
$ make -j$(nproc)
$ sudo make modules_install install
</code></pre>
<h2 id="source-code">Source Code</h2>
<p>There are several Linux kernel source trees having DAMON for different users.
You may pick one among those based on your needs.</p>
<p>For users who want a <strong>stable</strong> version of DAMON, Linus Torvalds'
<a href="https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/h/master">mainline tree</a> is recommended.</p>
<p>If you have interests in DAMON features under <strong>development</strong>, below trees will
be appropriate.  These trees contain latest version of DAMON which having
features under development.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://git.kernel.org/akpm/mm/h/mm-unstable">mm-unstable</a> contains the
latest DAMON patches, which are under testing with other unstable memory
management subsystem patches.  So this tree is likely unstable and frequently
updated, but would be a good baseline for your DAMON development.</li>
<li><a href="https://git.kernel.org/sj/h/damon/next">damon/next</a> contains the latest
changes, which might not tested at all.  So this tree is likely more unstable
and frequently updated than mm-unstable.  This tree also contains some
changes that exist only for DAMON hacks itself rather than eventually be
merged in the mainline.</li>
</ul>
<p>For people who have interest in DAMON features under development but use LTS
kernels as their baseline, three <em>were</em> trees that based on three latest LTS
kernels.</p>
<p>NOTE: Below trees were continuously getting DAMON backports on latest 5.4.y,
5.10.y, and 5.15.y.  But those are deprecated as of 2022-09-03, and therefore
there will be no update to the trees.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://git.kernel.org/sj/h/damon/for-v5.15.y">damon/for-v5.15.y</a></li>
<li><a href="https://git.kernel.org/sj/h/damon/for-v5.10.y">damon/for-v5.10.y</a></li>
<li><a href="https://git.kernel.org/sj/h/damon/for-v5.4.y">damon/for-v5.4.y</a></li>
</ul>
<p>The source code of DAPTRACE, which is a prototype of DAMON, is also
<a href="https://github.com/daptrace">available</a>.</p>
<h2 id="user-space-tool">User-space Tool</h2>
<p>A user-space tool for DAMON, which is called DAMO (Data Access Monitoring
Operator), is available at
<a href="https://github.com/damonitor/damo">Github</a> and
<a href="https://pypi.org/project/damo/">PyPi</a>.  You may start using DAMON by following
the <a href="https://github.com/damonitor/damo#getting-started">Getting Started</a> of the
tool for start.</p>
<h2 id="tests-package">Tests Package</h2>
<p>There is a <a href="https://github.com/damonitor/damon-tests">tests suite</a> for
correctness verification and performance evaluation of DAMON.  Those are
actively used for the development of DAMON.  Using that, you can test DAMON on
your machine with only a few simple commands or deeply understand the user
interface of DAMON.</p>
<p>So, if you finished the
<a href="https://github.com/damonitor/damo#getting-started">tutorial</a> but have no idea
about what to do next, running the tests would be a good start.  If any test
fails, please report that to the maintainer via mail (<a href="mailto:sj@kernel.org">sj@kernel.org</a> or
<a href="mailto:damon@lists.linux.dev">damon@lists.linux.dev</a>) or
<a href="https://github.com/damonitor/damon-tests/issues">github</a>.</p>
<h2 id="official-document">Official Document</h2>
<p>The official document of DAMON in the latest mainline for
<a href="https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/mm/damon/index.html">users/sysadmins</a> and
<a href="https://docs.kernel.org/mm/damon/index.html">kernel programmers</a> are
available.  Those for next major release are also available(<a href="https://docs.kernel.org/next/admin-guide/mm/damon/index.html">users/sysadmins
doc</a>, <a href="https://docs.kernel.org/next/mm/damon/index.html">kernel
programmers doc</a>).</p>
<h2 id="showcase-website">Showcase Website</h2>
<p>There is a showcase <a href="https://damonitor.github.io/_index">website</a> that you can
get more information of DAMON.
The site hosts</p>
<ul>
<li>the heatmap format dynamic access pattern of various realistic workloads for
<a href="https://damonitor.github.io/test/result/visual/latest/rec.heatmap.0.png.html">heap</a>
area,
<a href="https://damonitor.github.io/test/result/visual/latest/rec.heatmap.1.png.html">mmap()-ed</a>
area,
and
<a href="https://damonitor.github.io/test/result/visual/latest/rec.heatmap.2.png.html">stack</a>
area,</li>
<li>the dynamic working set size
<a href="https://damonitor.github.io/test/result/visual/latest/rec.wss_sz.png.html">distribution</a>
and chronological working set
size <a href="https://damonitor.github.io/test/result/visual/latest/rec.wss_time.png.html">changes</a>,
and</li>
<li>daily performance test
<a href="https://damonitor.github.io/test/result/perf/index.html">results</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="evaluation-results">Evaluation Results</h2>
<p>Evaluation of DAMON and DAMON-based system optimizations are
<a href="https://damonitor.github.io/posts/damon_evaluation/">available</a>.</p>
<h2 id="damon-based-system-optimization-guide">DAMON-based System Optimization Guide</h2>
<p>A guide for DAMON-based system optimizations are also
<a href="https://damonitor.github.io/posts/damon_optimization_guide/">available</a>.</p>
<h2 id="profile-guided-optimization-example">Profile-Guided Optimization Example</h2>
<p>An example of DAMON-based profile-guided optimization is also
<a href="https://damonitor.github.io/posts/damon_profile_callstack_example/">available</a>.</p>
<h2 id="community">Community</h2>
<p>DAMON is maintained and developed by its own community, which is a sub-set of
the linux kernel development community.</p>
<p>The community is mainly driven by the mailing list (<a href="mailto:damon@lists.linux.dev">damon@lists.linux.dev</a>).
All the patches are posted there and reviewed.  Almost every discussions are
also made there.</p>
<p>For easy communication, a mailing tool called
<a href="https://github.com/sjp38/hackermail">HacKerMaiL</a> is recommended.  The tool
is maintained by DAMON maintainer and committed to support DAMON community.</p>
<p>If you prefer web-based interface for reading the mails, you can use
<a href="https://lore.kernel.org/damon/">lore</a>.  If you prefer the traditional
subscription based mailing workflow, you can subscribe to the mailing list via
<a href="https://subspace.kernel.org/lists.linux.dev.html">subspace.kernel.org</a>
following the <a href="https://subspace.kernel.org/#subscribing">instruction</a>.</p>
<p>The community also have an open, regular, and informal virtual bi-weekly
meeting series for DAMON community called DAMON Beer/Coffee/Tea chat
<a href="https://lore.kernel.org/damon/20220810225102.124459-1-sj@kernel.org/">series</a>.</p>
<h2 id="contribution">Contribution</h2>
<p>DAMON and its related projects including
<a href="https://github.com/damonitor/damo"><code>damo</code></a> and
<a href="https://github.com/sjp38/hackermail"><code>hackermail</code></a> are open source projects.
You can contribute to the development following the guidelines.  Please refer
to below contribution guidelines of each project to further look into the
process.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/mm/damon/maintainer-profile.html">DAMON</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/damonitor/damo/blob/next/CONTRIBUTING">damo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/sjp38/hackermail/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING">hkml</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="publications-and-presentations">Publications and Presentations</h2>
<p>Below are featured and/or upcoming publications and presentations covering
DAMON.
For <strong>more complete list</strong> of those, please refer to another
dedicated <a href="https://damonitor.github.io/posts/damon_publications_talks/">post</a>.</p>
<p><em>What to read/cite?</em></p>
<p>For people who more familiar to academic papers, DAMON papers for
<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3366626.3368125">Middleware'19 Industry</a>
and
<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3502181.353146">HPDC'22</a> are recommended to
read and/or cite.  The paper for Middleware'19 covers DAMON&rsquo;s monitoring
mechanisms and access pattern profiling-guided optimizations.  The paper for
HPDC'22 extends the coverage to DAMOS (automated access-aware system
operations) and user-space driven auto-tuning.</p>
<ul>
<li>SeongJae Park, <strong>Self-Driving DAMON/S: Controlled and Automated Access-aware
Efficient Systems.</strong> In <em>Open Source Summit North America</em>, Jun 2025.
<a href="https://sched.co/1aBOg">Link</a></li>
<li>SeongJae Park, <strong>DAMON Requirements for Access-aware MM of Future.</strong> In
<em>Linux Storage | Filesystem | MM &amp; BPF Summit</em>, Mar 2025.
<a href="https://github.com/damonitor/talks/blob/master/2025/lsfmmbpf/damon_requirements_lsfmmbpf_2025.pdf">Slides</a>,
<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PgjzaPOnIHgRIfqgwDNiftY5Xr6aU3NLWtDs7zFoIvc/edit?gid=1852749899#gid=1852749899">Link</a></li>
<li>SeongJae Park, <strong>DAMON Updates and Plans: Monitoring Parameters Auot-tuning
and Memory Tiering.</strong> In <em>Linux Storage | Filesystem | MM &amp; BPF Summit</em>,
Mar 2025.
<a href="https://github.com/damonitor/talks/blob/master/2025/lsfmmbpf/damon_updates_plans_lsfmmbpf_2025.pdf">Slides</a>,
<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PgjzaPOnIHgRIfqgwDNiftY5Xr6aU3NLWtDs7zFoIvc/edit?gid=1852749899#gid=1852749899">Link</a></li>
<li>SeongJae Park, <strong>DAMON: Kernel Subsystem for Data Access Monitoring and
Access-aware System Operations.</strong> In Fosdem, Feb 2025.
<a href="https://fosdem.org/2025/events/attachments/fosdem-2025-4396-damon-kernel-subsystem-for-data-access-monitoring-and-access-aware-system-operations/slides/237650/damon_fos_tfIr9t8.pdf">Slides</a>,
<a href="https://video.fosdem.org/2025/ud2208/fosdem-2025-4396-damon-kernel-subsystem-for-data-access-monitoring-and-access-aware-system-operations.av1.webm">Video</a>,
<a href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4396-damon-kernel-subsystem-for-data-access-monitoring-and-access-aware-system-operations/">Link</a></li>
<li>SeongJae Park, <strong>DAMON: Long-term Plans for Kernel That {Just
Works,Extensible}.</strong> In Linux Kernel Memory Management Microconferenct at
Linux Plumbers, Sep 2024.
<a href="https://lpc.events/event/18/contributions/1768/attachments/1637/3383/damon_longtern_plans_kmm_mc_lpc.pdf">Slides</a>,
<a href="https://youtu.be/mRU1ZeNB9WY?feature=shared">Video</a>,
<a href="https://lpc.events/event/18/contributions/1768/">Link</a></li>
<li>SeongJae Park, <strong>DAMON Recipes: Ways to Save Memory Using a Linux Kernel
Subsystem in the Real World.</strong> In Open Source Summit Europe, Sep 2024.
<a href="https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/osseu2024/50/damon_recipes_osseu_2024_overall.pdf?_gl=1*9ygnyb*_gcl_au*MTE4NTExNjkzLjE3MjU5MjQ4NzQ.*FPAU*MTk0NDY0NTM3LjE3MjI0MzA5MjA.">Slides 1</a>,
<a href="https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/osseu2024/68/damon_recipes_osseu_hmsdk.pdf?_gl=1*9ygnyb*_gcl_au*MTE4NTExNjkzLjE3MjU5MjQ4NzQ.*FPAU*MTk0NDY0NTM3LjE3MjI0MzA5MjA.">Slides 2</a>,
<a href="https://youtu.be/xKJO4kLTHOI?feature=shared">Video</a>,
<a href="https://sched.co/1ej2S">Link</a></li>
<li>Jonathan Corbet, <strong>An update and future plans for DAMON.</strong> In Linux Weekly
News, May 2024.
<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/973702/">Article</a></li>
<li>SeongJae Park, <strong>DAMON Updates and Plans: Automation of DAMON tuning,
tiering, and VM guest scaling.</strong>
In <em>Linux Storage | Filesystem | MM &amp; BPF Summit</em>, May 2024.
<a href="https://github.com/damonitor/talks/blob/master/2024/lsfmmbpf/damon_lsfmmbpf_2024.pdf">Slides</a>,
<a href="https://youtu.be/ywmwXq01ySA?feature=shared">Video</a>,
<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/176LXLys9Uh6A-Eal2flrzcbUSJMUXGkGwyihr9jAAaQ/edit?usp=sharing">Link</a></li>
<li>Jonathan Corbet, <strong>An update and future plans for DAMON.</strong> In Linux Weekly
News, May 2024.
<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/973702/">Article</a></li>
<li>SeongJae Park, <strong>DAMO[N,S]?: Implementing Self-Driven Data Access-Aware
Efficient Linux System.</strong> In Open Source Summit North America, Apr 2024.
<a href="https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/ossna2024/ff/damo_damon_damos_ossummit_na_2024.pdf">Slides</a>,
<a href="https://youtu.be/vP5x5P47S1U?feature=shared">Video</a>,
<a href="https://sched.co/1aBOg">Link</a></li>
<li>SeongJae Park, <strong>DAMON: Current Status and Future Plans.</strong>
In Kernel Summit, Nov 2023.
<a href="https://lpc.events/event/17/contributions/1624/attachments/1340/2732/damon_status_and_plans_kernel_summit_2023_11_15.pdf">Slides</a>,
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwHCGA3ppT4">Video</a>,
<a href="https://lpc.events/event/17/contributions/1624/">Link</a></li>
<li>SeongJae Park, <strong>Data Access Monitoring Operator (DAMO): User-Space
Tool/Python Library for Access-Aware Profiling and Optimization of Your Linux
Systems.</strong>
In Open Source Summit Europe, Sep 2023.
<a href="https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/osseu2023/92/damo_ossummit_eu_2023.pdf?_gl=1*ddzen2*_ga*NTQ4MTgzOTIyLjE2Nzg4MTE1NzY.*_ga_XH5XM35VHB*MTY5NTE5NDc1My4xNS4xLjE2OTUxOTc4NTUuNjAuMC4w">Slides</a>,
<a href="https://youtu.be/i7_W8-MozxY?si=AFhtdAzTbJJJFeGE">Video</a>,
<a href="https://sched.co/1OGf9">Link</a></li>
<li>Jonathan Corbet, <strong>A 2023 DAMON update.</strong> In Linux Weekly News, May 2023.
<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/931769/">Article</a></li>
<li>SeongJae Park, <strong>DAMON, DAMOS, and DAMO: Kernel Subsystems and User-Space
Tools for Data Access-Aware System Analysis/Optimizations.</strong>
In <em>Open Source Summit North America</em>, May 2023.
<a href="https://github.com/damonitor/talks/blob/master/2023/ossummit_na/damon_damos_damo_ossummit_na_2023.pdf">Slides</a>,
<a href="https://youtu.be/fImXcHS5PPE">Video</a>,
<a href="https://sched.co/1K5HS">Link</a></li>
<li>SeongJae Park, <strong>DAMON updates and future plans.</strong>
In <em>Linux Storage | Filesystem | MM &amp; BPF Summit</em>, May 2023.
<a href="https://github.com/damonitor/talks/blob/master/2023/lsfmmbpf/damon_lsfmmbpf_2023.pdf">Slides</a>,
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbC23ApPvow">Video</a>,
<a href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lsfmm/program/schedule-at-a-glance/">Link</a></li>
<li>SeongJae Park, <strong>Current Status and Future Plans of DAMON.</strong>
In <em>The Linux Kernel Summit</em>, September 2022.
<a href="https://lpc.events/event/16/contributions/1224/attachments/1107/2137/damon_status_plan_ksummit_2022.pdf">Slides</a>,
<a href="https://youtu.be/e2SZoUPhDRg?t=13245">Video</a>,
<a href="https://lpc.events/event/16/contributions/1224/">Link</a></li>
<li>Jonathan Corbet, <strong>LRU-list manipulation with DAMON.</strong> In Linux Weekly News,
August 2022.  <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/905370/">Article</a></li>
<li>SeongJae Park, Madhuparna Bhowmik, Alexandru Uta, <strong>DAOS: Data Access-aware
Operating System.</strong> In <em>The 31st International ACM Symposium on
High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC'22)</em>, June 2022.
<a href="https://www.amazon.science/publications/daos-data-access-aware-operating-system">Paper</a>,
<a href="https://damonitor.github.io/misc/daos_hpdc_2022_slides.pdf">Slides</a>,
<a href="https://damonitor.github.io/misc/daos_hpdc_2022_poster.pdf">Poster</a></li>
<li>Jonathan Corbet, <strong>Using DAMON for proactive reclaim.</strong> In Linux Weekly News,
July 2021.  <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/863753/">Article</a></li>
<li>Jonathan Corbet, <strong>Memory-management optimization with DAMON.</strong> In Linux
Weekly News, February 2020.
<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/812707/">Article</a></li>
<li>SeongJae Park, Yunjae Lee, Heon Y. Yeom, <strong>Profiling Dynamic Data Access
Patterns with Controlled Overhead and Quality.</strong> In 20th ACM/IFIP
International Middleware Conference Industry, December 2019.
<a href="https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3368125">Paper</a></li>
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