Re: [RFC] mm: remove swapcache page early

Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2013-03-27T05:16:18Z

(2013/03/27 11:22), Minchan Kim wrote:
> Swap subsystem does lazy swap slot free with expecting the page
> would be swapped out again so we can't avoid unnecessary write.
>
> But the problem in in-memory swap is that it consumes memory space
> until vm_swap_full(ie, used half of all of swap device) condition
> meet. It could be bad if we use multiple swap device, small in-memory swap
> and big storage swap or in-memory swap alone.
>
> This patch changes vm_swap_full logic slightly so it could free
> swap slot early if the backed device is really fast.
> For it, I used SWP_SOLIDSTATE but It might be controversial.
> So let's add Ccing Shaohua and Hugh.
> If it's a problem for SSD, I'd like to create new type SWP_INMEMORY
> or something for z* family.
>
> Other problem is zram is block device so that it can set SWP_INMEMORY
> or SWP_SOLIDSTATE easily(ie, actually, zram is already done) but
> I have no idea to use it for frontswap.
>
> Any idea?
>
Another thinking....in what case, in what system configuration,
vm_swap_full() should return false and delay swp_entry freeing ?

Thanks,
-Kame