From: Liew Rui Yan The current implementation of damon_hot_score() uses a manual for-loop to calculate the value of 'age_in_log'. This can be efficiently replaced by ilog2(), which is semantically more appropriate for calculating the logarithmic value of age. In a simulated-kernel-module performance test with 10,000,000 iterations, this optimization showed a significant reduction in latency (average latency reduced from ~12ns to ~1ns). Test results from the simulated-kernel-module: - ilog2: DAMON Perf Test: Starting 10000000 iterations ============================================= Total Iterations : 10000000 Average Latency : 1 ns P95 Latency : 41 ns P99 Latency : 41 ns --------------------------------------------- Range (ns) | Count | Percent --------------------------------------------- 0-19 | 0 | 0% 20-39 | 2625000 | 26% 40-59 | 7374000 | 73% 60-79 | 0 | 0% 80-99 | 0 | 0% 100+ | 1000 | 0% ============================================= - for-loop: DAMON Perf Test: Starting 10000000 iterations ============================================= Total Iterations : 10000000 Average Latency : 12 ns P95 Latency : 51 ns P99 Latency : 60 ns --------------------------------------------- Range (ns) | Count | Percent --------------------------------------------- 0-19 | 0 | 0% 20-39 | 0 | 0% 40-59 | 9862000 | 98% 60-79 | 135000 | 1% 80-99 | 1000 | 0% 100+ | 2000 | 0% ============================================= Full raw benchmark results can be found at [1]. [1] https://github.com/aethernet65535/damon-hot-score-fls-optimize/tree/master/result-raw Signed-off-by: Liew Rui Yan Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park --- Changes from v2 (https://lore.kernel.org/20260320192020.33004-1-aethernet65535@gmail.com) - Rebased to latest mm-new. Changes from v1 (actually it was RFC) (https://lore.kernel.org/20260320072431.248235-1-aethernet65535@gmail.com) - Replace fls() with ilog2() per SeongJae Park's suggestion for better semantic clarity. - Move performance benchmark results into the commit message and add comparison between for-loop and ilog2. mm/damon/ops-common.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/damon/ops-common.c b/mm/damon/ops-common.c index 8c6d613425c1..3a0ddc3ac719 100644 --- a/mm/damon/ops-common.c +++ b/mm/damon/ops-common.c @@ -117,9 +117,12 @@ int damon_hot_score(struct damon_ctx *c, struct damon_region *r, damon_max_nr_accesses(&c->attrs); age_in_sec = (unsigned long)r->age * c->attrs.aggr_interval / 1000000; - for (age_in_log = 0; age_in_log < DAMON_MAX_AGE_IN_LOG && age_in_sec; - age_in_log++, age_in_sec >>= 1) - ; + if (age_in_sec) + age_in_log = min_t(int, ilog2(age_in_sec) + 1, + DAMON_MAX_AGE_IN_LOG); + else + age_in_log = 0; + /* If frequency is 0, higher age means it's colder */ if (freq_subscore == 0) -- 2.47.3