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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 22:35:18 -0400
From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>,
	Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 4/5] mm: zswap: remove same_filled module params
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On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 01:35:46AM +0000, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> These knobs offer more fine-grained control to userspace than needed and
> directly expose/influence kernel implementation; remove them.
> 
> For disabling same_filled handling, there is no logical reason to refuse
> storing same-filled pages more efficiently and opt for compression.
> Scanning pages for patterns may be an argument, but the page contents
> will be read into the CPU cache anyway during compression. Also,
> removing the same_filled handling code does not move the needle
> significantly in terms of performance anyway [1].
> 
> For disabling non_same_filled handling, it was added when the compressed
> pages in zswap were not being properly charged to memcgs, as workloads
> could escape the accounting with compression [2]. This is no longer the
> case after commit f4840ccfca25 ("zswap: memcg accounting"), and using
> zswap without compression does not make much sense.
> 
> [1]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAJD7tkaySFP2hBQw4pnZHJJwe3bMdjJ1t9VC2VJd=khn1_TXvA@mail.gmail.com/
> [2]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/19d5cdee-2868-41bd-83d5-6da75d72e940@maciej.szmigiero.name/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>