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Date:   Thu, 8 Feb 2018 02:25:21 -0800
From:   Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
To:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
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        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>, stable@vger.kernel.org,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm -v2] mm, swap, frontswap: Fix THP swap if frontswap
 enabled
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On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 10:36:35AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (02/07/18 13:05), Andrew Morton wrote:
> [..]
> > hm.  This is assuming that "cluster==true" means "this is thp swap". 
> > That's presently true, but is it appropriate that get_swap_pages() is
> > peeking at "cluster" to work out why it is being called?
> > 
> > Or would it be cleaner to do this in get_swap_page()?  Something like
> > 
> > --- a/mm/swap_slots.c~a
> > +++ a/mm/swap_slots.c
> > @@ -317,8 +317,11 @@ swp_entry_t get_swap_page(struct page *p
> >  	entry.val = 0;
> >  
> >  	if (PageTransHuge(page)) {
> > -		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_THP_SWAP))
> > -			get_swap_pages(1, true, &entry);
> > +		/* Frontswap doesn't support THP */
> > +		if (!frontswap_enabled()) {
> > +			if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_THP_SWAP))
> > +				get_swap_pages(1, true, &entry);
> > +		}
> >  		return entry;
> >  	}
> 
> I have proposed exactly the same thing [1], Minchan commented that
> it would introduce frontswap dependency to swap_slots.c [2]. Which
> is true, but I'd still probably prefer to handle it all in
> get_swap_page. Minchan, any objections?

I didn't want to spread out frontswap stuff unless it has good value
because most of frontswap functions are located in mm/swapfile.c
at this moment. It gives me good feeling frontswap's abstraction
is wonderful.
However, if frontswap matainer has no problem, I am not against, either.

Thanks.