Re: [PATCH v2] mm: zswap: increase reject_compress_poor but not reject_compress_fail if compression returns ENOSPC

[Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 4:57 PM Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 06:36:42PM +1300, Barry Song wrote:
> > From: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
> >
> > We used to rely on the returned -ENOSPC of zpool_malloc() to increase
> > reject_compress_poor. But the code wouldn't get to there after commit
> > 744e1885922a ("crypto: scomp - fix req->dst buffer overflow") as the
> > new code will goto out immediately after the special compression case
> > happens. So there might be no longer a chance to execute zpool_malloc
> > now. We are incorrectly increasing zswap_reject_compress_fail instead.
> > Thus, we need to fix the counters handling right after compressions
> > return ENOSPC. This patch also centralizes the counters handling for
> > all of compress_poor, compress_fail and alloc_fail.
> >
> > Fixes: 744e1885922a ("crypto: scomp - fix req->dst buffer overflow")
> > Cc: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
> > Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
> > ---
> >  -v2:
> >  * correct the fixes target according to Yosry, Chengming, Nhat's
> >    comments;
> >  * centralize the counters handling according to Yosry's comment
>
> Yet Yosry is not CC'd :P

terribly sorry. I thought you were in my git send-email list ... but you
were not...

>
> The patch LGTM, but it won't apply on top of mm-unstable given the
> amount of zswap refactoring there. I would rebase on top of mm-unstable
> if I were you (and if you did, add mm-unstable in the subject prefix).

This patch has a "fixes" tag, so I assume it should be also in 6.8?

>
> Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>

thanks!

>
> Thanks!