linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next] blk-wbt: don't throttle swap writes in direct reclaim

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Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2024 06:53:26 -0600
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To: linux-block@...r.kernel.org, libaokun@...weicloud.com
Cc: hch@...radead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, yangerkun@...wei.com, 
 houtao1@...wei.com, yukuai3@...wei.com, libaokun1@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] blk-wbt: don't throttle swap writes in direct
 reclaim


On Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:05:22 +0800, libaokun@...weicloud.com wrote:
> Now we avoid throttling swap writes by determining whether the current
> process is kswapd (aka current_is_kswapd()), but swap writes can come
> from either kswapd or direct reclaim, so the swap writes from direct
> reclaim will still be throttled.
> 
> When a process holds a lock to allocate a free page, and enters direct
> reclaim because there is no free memory, then it might trigger a hung
> due to the wbt throttling that causes other processes to fail to get
> the lock.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] blk-wbt: don't throttle swap writes in direct reclaim
      commit: 4e63aeb5d0101ddada36a2f64f048e2f9d2202fc

Best regards,
-- 
Jens Axboe