Hi Lance, Thank you very much for sharing this and for your interest in the related work. It is great to see DAMON and virtio-balloon being used together in another real, large-scale system.
One scenario we have recently been studying came from Sangfor. In a KVM/QEMU deployment with guest memory backed by shared tmpfs and host THP enabled, host-side DAMON can report a much larger hot-memory proportion than the guest's fine-grained activity suggests. The related discussion is here: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ We are preparing more complete experiments and improvements around this scenario, and we plan to discuss it in more depth at LPC. I am still actively running experiments based in part on SJ's earlier introductions and our discussions. After LPC, we hope to share results on a more regular basis, together with discussion outcomes and reports from more scenarios. I believe DAMON will continue to become even better as these users and perspectives come together. I am also contacting the authors of the DeepSeek paper to learn more about their setup and experience. We hope they can join the discussion so that we can work together to improve this area further. Kairui is also very interested in this DAMON use case and may already have discussed related ideas with SJ, so I have kept him in Cc. Thank you again, Lance, and thanks everyone! Best, Lian On Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:44:08 +0800 Lance Yang <[email protected]> wrote: > I was reading DeepSeek's new DSec paper[1] and found a nice use of DAMON > and virtio-balloon: > > And it worked: time-integrated host memory use fell by 21.2%, while peak > usage stayed about the same, with no significant CPU overhead.
