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Date:   Wed, 9 Mar 2022 14:18:19 -0500
From:   Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
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        Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>,
        Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block/psi: remove PSI annotations from submit_bio
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On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 09:43:24AM +0000, cgel.zte@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
> 
> psi tracks the time spent submitting the IO of refaulting pages[1].
> But after we tracks refault stalls from swap_readpage[2][3], there
> is no need to do so anymore. Since swap_readpage already includes
> IO submitting time.
> 
> [1] commit b8e24a9300b0 ("block: annotate refault stalls from IO submission")
> [2] commit 937790699be9 ("mm/page_io.c: annotate refault stalls from swap_readpage")
> [3] commit 2b413a1a728f ("mm: page_io: fix psi memory pressure error on cold swapins")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
> Reviewed-by: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>

It's still needed by file cache refaults!

NAK