Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] mm: zswap: zswap_store_pages() simplifications for batching.

[Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 11:00 PM Chengming Zhou
<chengming.zhou@linux.dev> wrote:
>
> How about introducing a `zswap_compress_folio()` interface which
> can be used by `zswap_store()`?
> ```
> zswap_store()
>         nr_pages = folio_nr_pages(folio)
>
>         entries = zswap_alloc_entries(nr_pages)
>
>         ret = zswap_compress_folio(folio, entries, pool)
>
>         // store entries into xarray and LRU list
> ```
>
> And this version `zswap_compress_folio()` is very simple for now:
> ```
> zswap_compress_folio()
>         nr_pages = folio_nr_pages(folio)
>
>         for (index = 0; index < nr_pages; ++index) {
>                 struct page *page = folio_page(folio, index);
>
>                 if (!zswap_compress(page, &entries[index], pool))
>                         return false;
>         }
>
>         return true;
> ```
> This can be easily extended to support your "batched" version.
>
> Then the old `zswap_store_page()` could be removed.
>
> The good point is simplicity, that we don't need to slice folio
> into multiple batches, then repeat the common operations for each
> batch, like preparing entries, storing into xarray and LRU list...
>

+1.