linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: zswap: remove unnecessary tree cleanups in zswap

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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 01:26:56 -0800
From: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>
To: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, 
	Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>, Chris Li <chrisl@...nel.org>, Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>, 
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: zswap: remove unnecessary tree cleanups in zswap_swapoff()

On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 1:22 AM Chengming Zhou
<zhouchengming@...edance.com> wrote:
>
> On 2024/1/25 17:03, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> >>>>>> The second difference is the handling of lru entry, which is easy that we
> >>>>>> just zswap_lru_del() in tree lock.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Why do we need zswap_lru_del() at all? We should have already isolated
> >>>>> the entry at that point IIUC.
> >>>>
> >>>> I was thinking how to handle the "zswap_lru_putback()" if not writeback,
> >>>> in which case we can't use the entry actually since we haven't got reference
> >>>> of it. So we can don't isolate at the entry, and only zswap_lru_del() when
> >>>> we are going to writeback actually.
> >>>
> >>> Why not just call zswap_lru_putback() before we unlock the folio?
> >>
> >> When early return because __read_swap_cache_async() return NULL or !folio_was_allocated,
> >> we don't have a locked folio yet. The entry maybe invalidated and freed concurrently.
> >
> > Oh, that path, right.
> >
> > If we don't isolate the entry straightaway, concurrent reclaimers will
> > see the same entry, call __read_swap_cache_async(), find the folio
> > already in the swapcache and stop shrinking. This is because usually
> > this means we are racing with swapin and hitting the warmer part of
> > the zswap LRU.
> >
> > I am not sure if this would matter in practice, maybe Nhat knows
> > better. Perhaps we can rotate the entry in the LRU before calling
> > __read_swap_cache_async() to minimize the chances of such a race? Or
> > we can serialize the calls to __read_swap_cache_async() but this may
> > be an overkill.
>
> Also, not sure, rotate the entry maybe good IMHO since we will zswap_lru_del()
> once we checked the invalidate race.

Not sure what you mean. If we rotate first, we won't have anything to
do in the failure case (if the folio is not locked). We will have to
do zswap_lru_del() if actually writeback, yes, but in this case no
synchronization is needed because the folio is locked, right?