mm/damon/core: introduce [in]active memory ratio damos quota goal metric

mm/damon/core: introduce [in]active memory ratio damos quota goal metric

Patch series "mm/damon: advance DAMOS-based LRU sorting".

DAMOS_LRU_[DE]PRIO actions were added to DAMOS for more access-aware LRU
lists sorting.  For simple usage, a specialized kernel module, namely
DAMON_LRU_SORT, has also been introduced.  After the introduction of the
module, DAMON got a few important new features, including the aim-based
quota auto-tuning, age tracking, young page filter, and monitoring
intervals auto-tuning.  Meanwhile, DAMOS-based LRU sorting had no direct
updates.  Now we show some rooms to advance for DAMOS-based LRU sorting.

Firstly, the aim-oriented quota auto-tuning can simplify the LRU sorting
parameters tuning.  But there is no good auto-tuning target metric for LRU
sorting use case.  Secondly, the behavior of DAMOS_LRU_[DE]PRIO are not
very symmetric.  DAMOS_LRU_DEPRIO directly moves the pages to inactive LRU
list, while DAMOS_LRU_PRIO only marks the page as accessed, so that the
page can not directly but only eventually moved to the active LRU list.
Finally, DAMON_LRU_SORT users cannot utilize the modern features that can
be useful for them, too.

Improve the situation with the following changes.  First, introduce a new
DAMOS quota auto-tuning target metric for active:inactive memory size
ratio.  Since LRU sorting is a kind of balancing of active and inactive
pages, the active:inactive memory size ratio can be intuitively set.
Second, update DAMOS_LRU_[DE]PRIO behaviors to be more intuitive and
symmetric, by letting them directly move the pages to [in]active LRU list.
Third, update the DAMON_LRU_SORT module user interface to be able to
fully utilize the modern features including the [in]active memory size
ratio-based quota auto-tuning, young page filter, and monitoring intervals
auto-tuning.

With these changes, for example, users can now ask DAMON to "find hot/cold
memory regions with auto-tuned monitoring intervals, do one more page
level access check for found hot/cold memory, and move pages of those to
active or inactive LRU lists accordingly, aiming X:Y active to inactive
memory ratio." For example, if they know 30% of the memory is better to be
protected from reclamation, 30:70 can be set as the target ratio.

Test Results
------------

I ran DAMON_LRU_SORT with the features introduced by this series, on a
real world server workload.  For the active:inactive ratio goal, I set
50:50.  I confirmed it achieves the target active:inactive ratio, without
manual tuning of the monitoring intervals and the hot/coldness thresholds.
The baseline system that was not running the DAMON_LRU_SORT was keeping
active:inactive ratio of about 1:10.

Note that the test didn't show a clear performance difference, though.  I
believe that was mainly because the workload was not very memory
intensive.  Also, whether the 50:50 target ratio was optimum is unclear.
Nonetheless, the positive performance impact of the basic LRU sorting idea
is already confirmed with the initial DAMON_LRU_SORT introduction patch
series.  The goal of this patch series is simplifying the parameters
tuning of DAMOS-based LRU sorting, and the test confirmed the aimed goals
are achieved.

Patches Sequence
----------------

First three patches extend DAMOS quota auto-tuning to support [in]active
memory ratio target metric type.  Those (patches 1-3) introduce new
metrics, implement DAMON sysfs support, and update the documentation,
respectively.

Following patch (patch 4) makes DAMOS_LRU_PRIO action to directly move
target pages to active LRU list, instead of only marking them accessed.

Following seven patches (patches 5-11) updates DAMON_LRU_SORT to support
modern DAMON features.  Patch 5 makes it uses not only access frequency
but also age at under-quota regions prioritization.  Patches 6-11 add the
support for young page filtering, active:inactive memory ratio based quota
auto-tuning, and monitoring intervals auto-tuning, with appropriate
document updates.

This patch (of 11):

DAMOS_LRU_[DE]PRIO are DAMOS actions for making balance of active and
inactive memory size.  There is no appropriate DAMOS quota auto-tuning
target metric for the use case.  Add two new DAMOS quota goal metrics for
the purpose, namely DAMOS_QUOTA_[IN]ACTIVE_MEM_BP.  Those will represent
the ratio of [in]active memory to total (inactive + active) memory.
Hence, users will be able to ask DAMON to, for example, "find hot and cold
memory, and move pages of those to active and inactive LRU lists,
adjusting the hot/cold thresholds aiming 50:50 active:inactive memory
ratio."

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260113152717.70459-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260113152717.70459-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>