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Message-ID: <612e4576-437f-4c63-b56a-fa2ad62779b9@linux.dev>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2025 11:03:56 +0800
From: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@...ux.dev>
To: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
 David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>, Michal Hocko
 <mhocko@...e.com>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
 Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>, Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@...ux.dev>,
 kernel-team@...a.com, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] Docs/admin-guide/mm/zswap: s/red-black tree/xarray/

On 2025/10/4 04:38, SeongJae Park wrote:
> The change from commit 796c2c23e14e ("zswap: replace RB tree with
> xarray") is not reflected on the document.  Update the document.
> 
> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@...ux.dev>

> ---
>   Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst | 10 +++++-----
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst
> index 283d77217c6f..2464425c783d 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst
> @@ -59,11 +59,11 @@ returned by the allocation routine and that handle must be mapped before being
>   accessed.  The compressed memory pool grows on demand and shrinks as compressed
>   pages are freed.  The pool is not preallocated.
>   
> -When a swap page is passed from swapout to zswap, zswap maintains a mapping
> -of the swap entry, a combination of the swap type and swap offset, to the
> -zsmalloc handle that references that compressed swap page.  This mapping is
> -achieved with a red-black tree per swap type.  The swap offset is the search
> -key for the tree nodes.
> +When a swap page is passed from swapout to zswap, zswap maintains a mapping of
> +the swap entry, a combination of the swap type and swap offset, to the zsmalloc
> +handle that references that compressed swap page.  This mapping is achieved
> +with an xarray per swap type.  The swap offset is the search key for the xarray
> +nodes.
>   
>   During a page fault on a PTE that is a swap entry, the swapin code calls the
>   zswap load function to decompress the page into the page allocated by the page

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