Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753310Ab3IWCHD (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Sep 2013 22:07:03 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:27909 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752434Ab3IWCHB (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Sep 2013 22:07:01 -0400 Message-ID: <523FA230.3020902@oracle.com> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:06:40 +0800 From: Bob Liu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130308 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Seth Jennings CC: Weijie Yang , minchan@kernel.org, weijie.yang.kh@gmail.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] mm/zswap: avoid unnecessary page scanning References: <000701ceaac0$71c43590$554ca0b0$%yang@samsung.com> <20130909162909.GB4701@variantweb.net> In-Reply-To: <20130909162909.GB4701@variantweb.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1233 Lines: 35 On 09/10/2013 12:29 AM, Seth Jennings wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 01:16:45PM +0800, Weijie Yang wrote: >> add SetPageReclaim before __swap_writepage so that page can be moved to the >> tail of the inactive list, which can avoid unnecessary page scanning as this >> page was reclaimed by swap subsystem before. >> >> Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang > > Acked-by: Seth Jennings > Below is a reply from Mel in original thread "[PATCHv11 3/4] zswap: add to mm/" ------------------ > + /* start writeback */ > + SetPageReclaim(page); > + __swap_writepage(page, &wbc, end_swap_bio_write); > + page_cache_release(page); > + zswap_written_back_pages++; > + SetPageReclaim? Why?. If the page is under writeback then why do you not mark it as that? Do not free pages that are currently under writeback obviously. It's likely that it was PageWriteback you wanted in zbud.c too. -------------------- -- Regards, -Bob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/