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Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 15:35:18 +0900
From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
minchan@...nel.org, ngupta@...are.org, sjenning@...hat.com,
ddstreet@...e.org, vitaly.wool@...sulko.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 6/6] zsmalloc: Implement writeback mechanism for
zsmalloc
On (22/11/22 01:09), Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 12:42:20PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > On (22/11/21 22:12), Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 11:15:20AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > > > On (22/11/18 16:15), Nhat Pham wrote:
[..]
> > What I meant was: if zs_reclaim_page() makes only partial progress
> > with the current LRU tail zspage and returns -EAGAIN, then we just
> > don't increment `total` and continue looping in zs_zpool_shrink().
>
> Hm, but it breaks on -EAGAIN, it doesn't continue.
Yes. "What if it would continue". Would it make sense to not
break on EAGAIN?
while (total < pages) {
ret = zs_reclaim_page(pool);
if (ret == -EAGAIN)
continue;
if (ret < 0)
break;
total++;
}
Then we don't need retry loop in zs_reclaim_page().
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