Re: [PATCH] mm: zswap: fix the lack of page lru flag in zswap_writeback_entry

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 22:27:06 +0800 Zhongkun He <hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com> wrote:

> The zswap_writeback_entry() will add a page to the swap cache, decompress
> the entry data into the page, and issue a bio write to write the page back
> to the swap device. Move the page to the tail of lru list  through
> SetPageReclaim(page) and folio_rotate_reclaimable().
> 
> Currently, about half of the pages will fail to move to the tail of lru
> list because there is no LRU flag in page which is not in the LRU list but
> the cpu_fbatches. So fix it.

Some reviewer input on this change would be helpful, please.

Also, is there any measurable change in overall performance?

> --- a/mm/zswap.c
> +++ b/mm/zswap.c
> @@ -1139,6 +1139,11 @@ static int zswap_writeback_entry(struct zswap_entry *entry,
>  	/* move it to the tail of the inactive list after end_writeback */
>  	SetPageReclaim(page);
>  
> +	if (!PageLRU(page)) {
> +		/* drain lru cache to help folio_rotate_reclaimable() */
> +		lru_add_drain();
> +	}
> +
>  	/* start writeback */
>  	__swap_writepage(page, &wbc);
>  	put_page(page);
> -- 
> 2.25.1
>