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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>,
	Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>, Chris Li <chriscli@google.com>,
	Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>,
	Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/6] mm/zswap: reuse dstmem when decompress
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2023 17:49:16 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZY1EnEefZsRTGYnP@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGsJ_4xHJzfjCsWqOdEs_=DTExJueO3gsVg4y_sNtr3U8BEuRg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 09:03:32PM +1300, Barry Song wrote:
>
> for CPU-based alg, we have completed the compr/decompr within
> crypto_acomp_decompress()
> synchronously. they won't return EINPROGRESS, EBUSY.
> 
> The problem is that crypto_acomp won't expose this information to its
> users. if it does,
> we can use this info, we will totally avoid the code of copying
> zsmalloc's data to a tmp
> buffer for the most majority users of zswap.
> 
> But I am not sure if we can find a way to convince Herbert(+To)  :-)

What would you like to expose? The async status of the underlying
algorithm?

We could certainly do that.  But I wonder if it might actually be
better for you to allocate a second sync-only algorithm for such
cases.  I'd like to see some real numbers.

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-12-28  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-26 15:54 [PATCH v4 0/6] mm/zswap: dstmem reuse optimizations and cleanups Chengming Zhou
2023-12-26 15:54 ` [PATCH v4 1/6] mm/zswap: change dstmem size to one page Chengming Zhou
2023-12-27  1:07   ` Barry Song
2023-12-27  6:11     ` Chengming Zhou
2023-12-27  6:32       ` Barry Song
2023-12-27 20:58       ` Andrew Morton
2023-12-27 23:21         ` Nhat Pham
2023-12-28  6:41           ` Chengming Zhou
2023-12-26 15:54 ` [PATCH v4 2/6] mm/zswap: reuse dstmem when decompress Chengming Zhou
2023-12-27  1:24   ` Barry Song
2023-12-27  6:32     ` Chengming Zhou
2023-12-28  8:03       ` Barry Song
2023-12-28  8:23         ` Chengming Zhou
2023-12-28  9:49         ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2024-01-03  2:57           ` [PATCH RFC 1/2] crypto: introduce acomp_is_async to expose if a acomp has a scomp backend Barry Song
2024-01-03  2:57             ` [PATCH RFC 2/2] mm/zswap: remove the memcpy if acomp is not asynchronous Barry Song
2024-01-03  2:57             ` [PATCH v4 2/6] mm/zswap: reuse dstmem when decompress Barry Song
2024-01-25  9:41               ` Herbert Xu
2024-01-27 14:41                 ` Barry Song
2023-12-26 15:54 ` [PATCH v4 3/6] mm/zswap: refactor out __zswap_load() Chengming Zhou
2023-12-26 15:54 ` [PATCH v4 4/6] mm/zswap: cleanup zswap_load() Chengming Zhou
2023-12-26 15:54 ` [PATCH v4 5/6] mm/zswap: cleanup zswap_writeback_entry() Chengming Zhou
2023-12-26 15:54 ` [PATCH v4 6/6] mm/zswap: change per-cpu mutex and buffer to per-acomp_ctx Chengming Zhou
2023-12-26 19:08   ` Nhat Pham

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