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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:20:58 -0700
From: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>
To: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] remove SWAP_MAP_SHMEM
On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 4:11 PM Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com> wrote:
>
> The SWAP_MAP_SHMEM state was originally introduced in the commit
> aaa468653b4a ("swap_info: note SWAP_MAP_SHMEM"), to quickly determine if a
> swap entry belongs to shmem during swapoff.
>
> However, swapoff has since been rewritten drastically in the commit
> b56a2d8af914 ("mm: rid swapoff of quadratic complexity"). Now
> having swap count == SWAP_MAP_SHMEM value is basically the same as having
> swap count == 1, and swap_shmem_alloc() behaves analogously to
> swap_duplicate()
>
> This RFC proposes the removal of this state and the associated helper to
> simplify the state machine (both mentally and code-wise). We will also
> have an extra state/special value that can be repurposed (for swap entries
> that never gets re-duplicated).
>
> Another motivation (albeit a bit premature at the moment) is the new swap
> abstraction I am currently working on, that would allow for swap/zswap
> decoupling, swapoff optimization, etc. The fewer states and swap API
> functions there are, the simpler the conversion will be.
>
> I am sending this series first as an RFC, just in case I missed something
> or misunderstood this state, or if someone has a swap optimization in mind
> for shmem that would require this special state.
I have the same patch sitting in a tree somewhere from when I tried
working on swap abstraction, except then swap_shmem_alloc() did not
take a 'nr' argument so I did not need swap_duplicate_nr(). I was
going to send it out with other swap code cleanups I had, but I ended
up deciding to do nothing.
So for what it's worth I think this is correct:
Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>
>
> Swap experts, let me know if I'm mistaken :) Otherwise if there is no
> objection I will resend this patch series again for merging.
>
> Nhat Pham (2):
> swapfile: add a batched variant for swap_duplicate()
> swap: shmem: remove SWAP_MAP_SHMEM
>
> include/linux/swap.h | 16 ++++++++--------
> mm/shmem.c | 2 +-
> mm/swapfile.c | 28 +++++++++-------------------
> 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: acfabf7e197f7a5bedf4749dac1f39551417b049
> --
> 2.43.5
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