Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] mm, swap: speed up hibernation allocation and writeout

[YoungJun Park <youngjun.park@lge.com>]

Thanks for the quick feedback :)

> Yes, that's definitely doable, but requires the hibernation side
> to change how it uses the API, which could be a long term
> workitem.

I can't claim to know the hibernation code inside out either,
but I think the picture would come together if we grab the
reference at find_first_swap / swap_type_of and just set the
put at the right place.

Let me look into this a bit more and bring it up if it turns
out to be worthwhile.

> I think you got this part wrong here. We need the lock because
> it will call this_cpu_xxx operations later. And GFP_KERNEL
> doesn't assume a lock locked context. Instead it needs to
> release the lock for a sleep alloc if the ATOMIC alloc fails,
> and that could happen here.

Ah right, sorry for the confusing wording. What I meant was
exactly what you described — the locks need to be released for
the GFP_KERNEL allocation, and the current code assumes the
local lock is always held at that point.

> But I agree we can definitely simplify this with some
> abstraction or wrapper.

What comes to mind right away is hoisting the alloc table
routine and distinguishing the path via the folio param. I'll
think about how to make it a clean design and propose a patch
if it makes sense :)

> I'm not sure how much code change it will involve and is it
> worth it.
>
> Hibernation is supposed to stop every process, so concurrent
> memory

I was thinking it might be possible with the ioctl-based
uswsusp path, but as you said, it probably wouldn't give us
a meaningful benefit.

> Definitely! I have a patch that introduced a hibernation /
> exclusive type in the swap table. Remember the is_countable
> macro you commented about previously? That's reserved for this.
> For hibernation type, it's not countable (exclusive to
> hibernation, maybe I need a better name though) so readahead or
> any accidental IO will always skip it. By then this ugly
> try_to_reclaim will be gone.

Nice!

> > Thanks for your work!
>
> And thanks for your review :)

Thanks 
Youngjun Park