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* [PATCH v3 3/3] mm/zswap: avoid unnecessary page scanning
@ 2013-09-23  8:21 Weijie Yang
  2013-09-24  1:03 ` Minchan Kim
  2013-10-10 19:55 ` Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Weijie Yang @ 2013-09-23  8:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm
  Cc: sjenning, bob.liu, minchan, weijie.yang.kh, linux-mm,
	linux-kernel, stable, d.j.shin, heesub.shin, kyungmin.park,
	hau.chen, bifeng.tong, rui.xie

add SetPageReclaim before __swap_writepage so that page can be moved to the
tail of the inactive list, which can avoid unnecessary page scanning as this
page was reclaimed by swap subsystem before.

Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 mm/zswap.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
index 1be7b90..cc40e6a 100644
--- a/mm/zswap.c
+++ b/mm/zswap.c
@@ -556,6 +556,9 @@ static int zswap_writeback_entry(struct zbud_pool *pool, unsigned long handle)
 		SetPageUptodate(page);
 	}
 
+	/* move it to the tail of the inactive list after end_writeback */
+	SetPageReclaim(page);
+
 	/* start writeback */
 	__swap_writepage(page, &wbc, end_swap_bio_write);
 	page_cache_release(page);
-- 
1.7.10.4


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* Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] mm/zswap: avoid unnecessary page scanning
  2013-09-23  8:21 [PATCH v3 3/3] mm/zswap: avoid unnecessary page scanning Weijie Yang
@ 2013-09-24  1:03 ` Minchan Kim
  2013-10-10 19:55 ` Andrew Morton
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Minchan Kim @ 2013-09-24  1:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Weijie Yang
  Cc: akpm, sjenning, bob.liu, weijie.yang.kh, linux-mm, linux-kernel,
	stable, d.j.shin, heesub.shin, kyungmin.park, hau.chen,
	bifeng.tong, rui.xie

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 04:21:49PM +0800, Weijie Yang wrote:
> add SetPageReclaim before __swap_writepage so that page can be moved to the
> tail of the inactive list, which can avoid unnecessary page scanning as this
> page was reclaimed by swap subsystem before.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com>
> Reviewed-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Acked-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

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* Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] mm/zswap: avoid unnecessary page scanning
  2013-09-23  8:21 [PATCH v3 3/3] mm/zswap: avoid unnecessary page scanning Weijie Yang
  2013-09-24  1:03 ` Minchan Kim
@ 2013-10-10 19:55 ` Andrew Morton
  2013-10-11  7:14   ` Minchan Kim
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Morton @ 2013-10-10 19:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Weijie Yang
  Cc: sjenning, bob.liu, minchan, weijie.yang.kh, linux-mm,
	linux-kernel, stable, d.j.shin, heesub.shin, kyungmin.park,
	hau.chen, bifeng.tong, rui.xie

On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:21:49 +0800 Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com> wrote:

> add SetPageReclaim before __swap_writepage so that page can be moved to the
> tail of the inactive list, which can avoid unnecessary page scanning as this
> page was reclaimed by swap subsystem before.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com>
> Reviewed-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Acked-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

As a minor(?) performance tweak, I don't believe this is suitable for
-stable backporting, so I took that out.  If you believe this was a
mistake, please explain why.


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* Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] mm/zswap: avoid unnecessary page scanning
  2013-10-10 19:55 ` Andrew Morton
@ 2013-10-11  7:14   ` Minchan Kim
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Minchan Kim @ 2013-10-11  7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton
  Cc: Weijie Yang, sjenning, bob.liu, weijie.yang.kh, linux-mm,
	linux-kernel, stable, d.j.shin, heesub.shin, kyungmin.park,
	hau.chen, bifeng.tong, rui.xie

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:55:06PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:21:49 +0800 Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com> wrote:
> 
> > add SetPageReclaim before __swap_writepage so that page can be moved to the
> > tail of the inactive list, which can avoid unnecessary page scanning as this
> > page was reclaimed by swap subsystem before.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
> > Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Acked-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> As a minor(?) performance tweak, I don't believe this is suitable for
> -stable backporting, so I took that out.  If you believe this was a
> mistake, please explain why.
> 

Yes. It's never stable stuff.

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