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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/damon.h | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/damon.h b/include/linux/damon.h index 0834d7ffcb84..af525252b853 100644 --- a/include/linux/damon.h +++ b/include/linux/damon.h @@ -193,11 +193,16 @@ struct damos_quota_goal { * size quota is set, DAMON tries to apply the action only up to &sz bytes * within &reset_interval. * - * Internally, the time quota is transformed to a size quota using estimated - * throughput of the scheme's action. DAMON then compares it against &sz and - * uses smaller one as the effective quota. + * To convince the different types of quotas and goals, DAMON internally + * converts those into one single size quota called "effective quota". DAMON + * internally uses it as the only one real quota. The conversion is made as + * follows. * - * If @goals is not empt, DAMON calculates yet another size quota based on the + * The time quota is transformed to a size quota using estimated throughput of + * the scheme's action. DAMON then compares it against &sz and uses smaller + * one as the effective quota. + * + * If @goals is not empty, DAMON calculates yet another size quota based on the * goals using its internal feedback loop algorithm, for every @reset_interval. * Then, if the new size quota is smaller than the effective quota, it uses the * new size quota as the effective quota. |