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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	kernel-team@fb.com, niketa@fb.com, sjenning@redhat.com,
	ddstreet@ieee.org, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] mm,swap: skip swap readahead for instant IO (like zswap)
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:12:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200922101250.527d9e676fefbb4c8d0cd5b9@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200922020148.3261797-1-riel@surriel.com>

On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 22:01:46 -0400 Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> wrote:

> Both with frontswap/zswap, and with some extremely fast IO devices,
> swap IO will be done before the "asynchronous" swap_readpage() call
> has returned.
> 
> In that case, doing swap readahead only wastes memory, increases
> latency, and increases the chances of needing to evict something more
> useful from memory. In that case, just skip swap readahead.

Any quantitative testing results?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-22 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-22  2:01 Rik van Riel
2020-09-22  2:01 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm,swap: extract swap single page readahead into its own function Rik van Riel
2020-09-23  6:32   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-23  8:02     ` Hillf Danton
2020-09-22  2:01 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm,swap: skip swap readahead if page was obtained instantaneously Rik van Riel
2020-09-22  3:13   ` huang ying
2020-09-22 11:33     ` Rik van Riel
2020-09-23  6:35   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-22 17:12 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2020-10-05 17:32   ` [PATCH 0/2] mm,swap: skip swap readahead for instant IO (like zswap) Rik van Riel
2020-10-09 14:38     ` Rik van Riel

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