linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] mm:swap: respect page

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Message-ID: <87ingonwpg.fsf@yhuang-dev.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 12 Sep 2017 16:32:43 +0800
From:   "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
To:     Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        <linux-mm@...ck.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-team <kernel-team@....com>,
        "Ilya Dryomov" <idryomov@...il.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] mm:swap: respect page_cluster for readahead

Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 04:07:01PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> < snip >
>> >> > My concern is users have been disabled swap readahead by page-cluster would
>> >> > be regressed. Please take care of them.
>> >> 
>> >> How about disable VMA based swap readahead if zram used as swap?  Like
>> >> we have done for hard disk?
>> >
>> > It could be with SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO flag which indicates super-fast,
>> > no seek cost swap devices if this patchset is merged so VM automatically
>> > disables readahead. It is in my TODO but it's orthogonal work.
>> >
>> > The problem I raised is "Why shouldn't we obey user's decision?",
>> > not zram sepcific issue.
>> >
>> > A user has used SSD as swap devices decided to disable swap readahead
>> > by some reason(e.g., small memory system). Anyway, it has worked
>> > via page-cluster for a several years but with vma-based swap devices,
>> > it doesn't work any more.
>> 
>> Can they add one more line to their configuration scripts?
>> 
>> echo 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/swap/vma_ra_max_order
>
> We call it as "regression", don't we?

I think this always happen when we switch default algorithm.  For
example, if we had switched default IO scheduler, then the user scripts
to configure the parameters of old default IO scheduler will fail.

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying