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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/6] mm: swap: Remove CLUSTER_FLAG_HUGE from
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To: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
 Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
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On 27.03.24 15:45, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> As preparation for supporting small-sized THP in the swap-out path,
> without first needing to split to order-0, Remove the CLUSTER_FLAG_HUGE,
> which, when present, always implies PMD-sized THP, which is the same as
> the cluster size.
> 
> The only use of the flag was to determine whether a swap entry refers to
> a single page or a PMD-sized THP in swap_page_trans_huge_swapped().
> Instead of relying on the flag, we now pass in nr_pages, which
> originates from the folio's number of pages. This allows the logic to
> work for folios of any order.
> 
> The one snag is that one of the swap_page_trans_huge_swapped() call
> sites does not have the folio. But it was only being called there to
> shortcut a call __try_to_reclaim_swap() in some cases.
> __try_to_reclaim_swap() gets the folio and (via some other functions)
> calls swap_page_trans_huge_swapped(). So I've removed the problematic
> call site and believe the new logic should be functionally equivalent.
> 
> That said, removing the fast path means that we will take a reference
> and trylock a large folio much more often, which we would like to avoid.
> The next patch will solve this.
> 
> Removing CLUSTER_FLAG_HUGE also means we can remove split_swap_cluster()
> which used to be called during folio splitting, since
> split_swap_cluster()'s only job was to remove the flag.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
> ---

Looks like a reasonable cleanup independent of everything else

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb