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For values that continuously change, moving average or sum are good ways to provide fast updates while handling temporal and errorneous variability of the value. For example, the access rate counter (nr_accesses) is calculated as a sum of the number of positive sampled access check results that collected during a discrete time window (aggregation interval), and hence it handles temporal and errorneous access check results, but provides the update only for every aggregation interval. Using a moving sum method for that could allow providing the value for every sampling interval. That could be useful for getting monitoring results snapshot or running DAMOS in fine-grained timing. However, supporting the moving sum for cases that number of samples in the time window is arbirary could impose high overhead, since the number of past values that it needs to keep could be too high. The nr_accesses would also be one of the cases. To mitigate the overhead, implement a pseudo-moving sum function that only provides an estimated pseudo-moving sum. It assumes there was no error in last discrete time window and subtract constant portion of last discrete time window sum. Note that the function is not strictly implementing the moving sum, but it keeps a property of moving sum, which makes the value same to the dsicrete-window based sum for each time window-aligned timing. Hence, people collecting the value in the old timings would show no difference. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230915025251.72816-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.