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From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>,
	Yunzhao Li <yunzhao@cloudflare.com>,
	 Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org,  nphamcs@gmail.com, yosryahmed@google.com,
	zhouchengming@bytedance.com,
	 James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>,
	kernel-team <kernel-team@cloudflare.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/zswap: use ratelimited stats flush in zswap_shrinker_count()
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:35:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <anqmAJKQ61CDlBiR@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260810200915.8461c16060fe1b79c18bced2@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 08:09:15PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:27:31 -0700 Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 9:36 AM Yunzhao Li <yunzhao@cloudflare.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Yeah the per-fault latency is exactly what I was looking for. Seems
> > > > like most of the faults are not faulting in the pages written back to
> > > > disk, nice.
> > >
> > > Yeah, at least for our workloads the cold entries seem to
> > > stay cold.
> > >
> > >
> > > > Would you be able to take a stab at eliminating the flushes as I
> > > > suggested above as an alternative?
> > >
> > > memcg internals are a bit out of my depth to be honest. I can
> > > definitely test a patch on our fleet though and get it verified
> > > if someone picks it up.
> > 
> > I can try to come up with a patch if you can help with testing, but it
> > won't be for a week or two. How long would it generally take to verify
> > such a patch?
> > 
> > > The ratelimited fix in mm-new is working well for us in the
> > > meantime, so it'd be great to keep that moving forward.
> > 
> > Hmm we can keep it in the pipeline for now and perhaps drop it if we
> > can get a proper fix before the next merge window. Does this sound
> > good to you?
> 
> So it doesn't seem this will be happening.
> 
> The original ratelimiting patch seems useful, is well-tested and
> well-reviewed.  I'll plan on upstreaming it in the second week of the
> merge window unless someone stops me!
> 

I agree to proceed with the patch. Since this is not exposing any api, we can
always come back to reevaluate the decision.


  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-11  4:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-02 18:07 [PATCH] mm/zswap: use ratelimited stats flush in zswap_shrinker_count() Yunzhao Li
2026-07-02 20:16 ` Johannes Weiner
2026-07-02 20:51   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2026-07-06 19:46   ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-07-08  9:10     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2026-07-08 19:32       ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-07-08 22:16         ` Yunzhao Li
2026-07-09  0:08           ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-07-09 16:34             ` Yunzhao Li
2026-07-09 19:32               ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-07-10 16:35                 ` Yunzhao Li
2026-07-10 18:27                   ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-07-10 21:25                     ` Yunzhao Li
2026-08-11  3:09                     ` Andrew Morton
2026-08-11  4:35                       ` Shakeel Butt [this message]
2026-08-11 16:42                         ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-07-22 20:49         ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-07-10 17:16 ` Nhat Pham

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