From: Askar Safin <safinaskar@gmail.com>
To: nphamcs@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/20] Virtual Swap Space
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 04:04:24 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260225010425.2876986-1-safinaskar@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260208215839.87595-1-nphamcs@gmail.com>
Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>:
> * Simplify and optimize swapoff: we only have to fault the page in and
> have the virtual swap slot points to the page instead of the on-disk
> physical swap slot. No need to perform any page table walking.
Some time ago on Linux 6.1.124 I typed "swapoff -a". OOM killer started
and killed all my apps. And "swapoff" itself eventially failed.
So, it seems swapoff is very destructive operation.
Please, make swapoff non-destructive. Or create some alternative
non-destructive swapoff. Such swapoff should try to swapoff without
killing anything. If this is not possible, it simply should return error.
I don't think optimizing current dangerous swapoff is right thing to do.
--
Askar Safin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-25 1:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-08 21:58 Nhat Pham
2026-02-08 21:58 ` [PATCH v3 01/20] mm/swap: decouple swap cache from physical swap infrastructure Nhat Pham
2026-02-08 22:26 ` [PATCH v3 00/20] Virtual Swap Space Nhat Pham
2026-02-10 17:59 ` Kairui Song
2026-02-10 18:52 ` Johannes Weiner
2026-02-10 19:11 ` Nhat Pham
2026-02-10 19:23 ` Nhat Pham
2026-02-12 5:07 ` Chris Li
2026-02-17 23:36 ` Nhat Pham
2026-02-10 21:58 ` Chris Li
2026-02-20 21:05 ` [PATCH] vswap: fix poor batching behavior of vswap free path Nhat Pham
2026-02-08 22:31 ` [PATCH v3 00/20] Virtual Swap Space Nhat Pham
2026-02-09 12:20 ` Chris Li
2026-02-10 2:36 ` Johannes Weiner
2026-02-10 21:24 ` Chris Li
2026-02-10 23:01 ` Johannes Weiner
2026-02-10 18:00 ` Nhat Pham
2026-02-10 23:17 ` Chris Li
2026-02-08 22:39 ` Nhat Pham
2026-02-09 2:22 ` [PATCH v3 01/20] mm/swap: decouple swap cache from physical swap infrastructure kernel test robot
2026-02-08 21:58 ` [PATCH v3 02/20] swap: rearrange the swap header file Nhat Pham
2026-02-08 21:58 ` [PATCH v3 03/20] mm: swap: add an abstract API for locking out swapoff Nhat Pham
2026-02-08 21:58 ` [PATCH v3 04/20] zswap: add new helpers for zswap entry operations Nhat Pham
2026-02-08 21:58 ` [PATCH v3 05/20] mm/swap: add a new function to check if a swap entry is in swap cached Nhat Pham
2026-02-08 21:58 ` [PATCH v3 06/20] mm: swap: add a separate type for physical swap slots Nhat Pham
2026-02-08 21:58 ` [PATCH v3 07/20] mm: create scaffolds for the new virtual swap implementation Nhat Pham
2026-02-08 21:58 ` [PATCH v3 08/20] zswap: prepare zswap for swap virtualization Nhat Pham
2026-02-08 21:58 ` [PATCH v3 09/20] mm: swap: allocate a virtual swap slot for each swapped out page Nhat Pham
2026-02-09 17:12 ` kernel test robot
2026-02-11 13:42 ` kernel test robot
2026-02-08 21:58 ` [PATCH v3 10/20] swap: move swap cache to virtual swap descriptor Nhat Pham
2026-02-08 21:58 ` [PATCH v3 11/20] zswap: move zswap entry management to the " Nhat Pham
2026-02-08 21:58 ` [PATCH v3 12/20] swap: implement the swap_cgroup API using virtual swap Nhat Pham
2026-02-08 21:58 ` [PATCH v3 13/20] swap: manage swap entry lifecycle at the virtual swap layer Nhat Pham
2026-02-08 21:58 ` [PATCH v3 14/20] mm: swap: decouple virtual swap slot from backing store Nhat Pham
2026-02-10 6:31 ` Dan Carpenter
2026-02-08 21:58 ` [PATCH v3 15/20] zswap: do not start zswap shrinker if there is no physical swap slots Nhat Pham
2026-02-08 21:58 ` [PATCH v3 16/20] swap: do not unnecesarily pin readahead swap entries Nhat Pham
2026-02-08 21:58 ` [PATCH v3 17/20] swapfile: remove zeromap bitmap Nhat Pham
2026-02-08 21:58 ` [PATCH v3 18/20] memcg: swap: only charge physical swap slots Nhat Pham
2026-02-09 2:01 ` kernel test robot
2026-02-09 2:12 ` kernel test robot
2026-02-08 21:58 ` [PATCH v3 19/20] swap: simplify swapoff using virtual swap Nhat Pham
2026-02-08 21:58 ` [PATCH v3 20/20] swapfile: replace the swap map with bitmaps Nhat Pham
2026-02-08 22:51 ` [PATCH v3 00/20] Virtual Swap Space Nhat Pham
2026-02-12 12:23 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-12 17:29 ` Nhat Pham
2026-02-12 17:39 ` Nhat Pham
2026-02-12 20:11 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-12 17:41 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-12 17:45 ` Nhat Pham
2026-02-10 15:45 ` [syzbot ci] " syzbot ci
2026-02-25 0:09 ` [PATCH v3 00/20] " Askar Safin
2026-02-25 1:04 ` Askar Safin [this message]
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