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[04/11] Docs/mm/damon/design: explicitly introduce ``nr_accesses``

Message ID 20230907022929.91361-5-sj@kernel.org
State New
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Series mm/damon: misc fixups for documents, comments and its tracepoint |

Commit Message

SeongJae Park Sept. 7, 2023, 2:29 a.m. UTC 
  The design document is explaining about the access tracking mechanism
and the access rate counter (nr_accesses), but not directly mentions the
name.  Add a sentence for making it clear.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
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 Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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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.