linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: zpool: return pool size in pages

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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 16:15:58 +0700
From: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>, 
	Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: zpool: return pool size in pages

On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 11:12 PM Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> wrote:
>
> All zswap backends track their pool sizes in pages. Currently they
> multiply by PAGE_SIZE for zswap, only for zswap to divide again in
> order to do limit math. Report pages directly.

I've always found this to be weird. Perhaps the original author of
this API wants to support more fine-grained memory consumption
tracking?

>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>

Anyway, let's just work with realities, rather than hypotheticals :)
With the renaming fixlet:
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>