From: "Thomas Weißschuh" <thomas@t-8ch.de>
To: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
minchan@kernel.org, ngupta@vflare.org, senozhatsky@chromium.org,
sjenning@redhat.com, ddstreet@ieee.org, vitaly.wool@konsulko.com,
linux@weissschuh.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/6] Implement writeback for zsmalloc
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2023 04:57:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230103045730.2ctv3n2ckzzmdzdx@snowball.t-8ch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221128191616.1261026-1-nphamcs@gmail.com>
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 11:16:09AM -0800, Nhat Pham wrote:
> Unlike other zswap's allocators such as zbud or z3fold, zsmalloc
> currently lacks the writeback mechanism. This means that when the zswap
> pool is full, it will simply reject further allocations, and the pages
> will be written directly to swap.
>
> This series of patches implements writeback for zsmalloc. When the zswap
> pool becomes full, zsmalloc will attempt to evict all the compressed
> objects in the least-recently used zspages.
Then this part of Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst should probably
also be updated at some point:
However, zsmalloc does not implement compressed page eviction, so
once zswap fills it cannot evict the oldest page, it can only reject
new pages.
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-03 4:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-28 19:16 Nhat Pham
2022-11-28 19:16 ` [PATCH v7 1/6] zswap: fix writeback lock ordering " Nhat Pham
2022-11-29 3:47 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-28 19:16 ` [PATCH v7 2/6] zpool: clean out dead code Nhat Pham
2022-11-28 19:16 ` [PATCH v7 3/6] zsmalloc: Consolidate zs_pool's migrate_lock and size_class's locks Nhat Pham
2022-11-29 4:01 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-28 19:16 ` [PATCH v7 4/6] zsmalloc: Add a LRU to zs_pool to keep track of zspages in LRU order Nhat Pham
2022-11-28 19:25 ` Johannes Weiner
2022-11-29 3:50 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-29 11:53 ` Vitaly Wool
2022-11-29 14:03 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-29 15:54 ` Johannes Weiner
2022-11-30 15:23 ` Vitaly Wool
2022-11-28 19:16 ` [PATCH v7 5/6] zsmalloc: Add zpool_ops field to zs_pool to store evict handlers Nhat Pham
2022-11-28 19:27 ` Johannes Weiner
2022-11-29 3:53 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-28 19:16 ` [PATCH v7 6/6] zsmalloc: Implement writeback mechanism for zsmalloc Nhat Pham
2022-11-28 19:28 ` Johannes Weiner
2022-11-29 3:58 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2023-01-03 4:57 ` Thomas Weißschuh [this message]
2023-01-06 20:32 ` [PATCH v7 0/6] Implement writeback " Nhat Pham
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