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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm:zswap: fix zswap entry reclamation failure in two
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Date:   Mon, 20 Nov 2023 11:18:24 +0800
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Chris Li <chriscli@google.com> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 12:19=E2=80=AFPM Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.c=
om> wrote:
>>
>> Not bypassing the swap slot cache, just make the callbacks to
>> invalidate the zswap entry, do memg uncharging, etc when the slot is
>> no longer used and is entering the swap slot cache (i.e. when
>> free_swap_slot() is called), instead of when draining the swap slot
>> cache (i.e. when swap_range_free() is called). For all parts of MM
>> outside of swap, the swap entry is freed when free_swap_slot() is
>> called. We don't free it immediately because of caching, but this
>> should be transparent to other parts of MM (e.g. zswap, memcg, etc).
>
> That will cancel the batching effect on the swap slot free, making the
> common case for  swapping  faults take longer to complete, righ?
> If I recall correctly, the uncharge is the expensive part of the swap
> slot free operation.
> I just want to figure out what we are trading off against. This is not
> one side wins all situations.

Per my understanding, we don't batch memcg uncharging in
swap_entry_free() now.  Although it's possible and may improve
performance.

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Best Regards,
Huang, Ying