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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linnux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zram: Add a huge_idle writeback mode
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 17:28:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YjDMo35Q/cvPLkxu@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220315172221.9522-1-bgeffon@google.com>

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 10:22:21AM -0700, Brian Geffon wrote:
> Today it's only possible to write back as a page, idle, or huge.
> A user might want to writeback pages which are huge and idle first
> as these idle pages do not require decompression and make a good
> first pass for writeback.

We're moving towards having many different sizes of page in play,
not just PMD and PTE sizes.  Is this patch actually a good idea in
a case where we have, eg, a 32kB anonymous page on a system with 4kB
pages?  How should zram handle this case?  What's our cut-off for
declaring a page to be "huge"?


  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-15 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-15 17:22 [PATCH] zram: Add a huge_idle writeback mode Brian Geffon
2022-03-15 17:28 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2022-03-15 17:34   ` Brian Geffon
2022-03-15 17:44     ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-03-16  0:01       ` Brian Geffon
2022-03-18 16:41 ` Minchan Kim
2022-03-18 16:51   ` Brian Geffon
2022-03-18 17:30     ` Minchan Kim
2022-03-21 14:50 ` Brian Geffon
2022-03-22 21:13   ` Minchan Kim
2022-03-22 21:52     ` Brian Geffon
2022-03-22 21:58 ` [PATCH v2] " Brian Geffon

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