linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] zswap: memcontrol: implement zswap writeback disabling

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Message-ID: <CAJD7tkbbkk1anw06fNpkHB==dmVPfDOja+Bae3uB3y7U_NaJnA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 14 Nov 2023 09:19:47 -0800
From:   Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>
To:     Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] zswap: memcontrol: implement zswap writeback disabling

On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 3:12 PM Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com> wrote:
>
> During our experiment with zswap, we sometimes observe swap IOs due to
> occasional zswap store failures and writebacks-to-swap. These swapping
> IOs prevent many users who cannot tolerate swapping from adopting zswap
> to save memory and improve performance where possible.
>
> This patch adds the option to disable this behavior entirely: do not
> writeback to backing swapping device when a zswap store attempt fail,
> and do not write pages in the zswap pool back to the backing swap
> device (both when the pool is full, and when the new zswap shrinker is
> called).
>
> This new behavior can be opted-in/out on a per-cgroup basis via a new
> cgroup file. By default, writebacks to swap device is enabled, which is
> the previous behavior. Initially, writeback is enabled for the root
> cgroup, and a newly created cgroup will inherit the current setting of
> its parent.
>
> Note that this is subtly different from setting memory.swap.max to 0, as
> it still allows for pages to be stored in the zswap pool (which itself
> consumes swap space in its current form).
>
> Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>

LGTM,
Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>