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From: Baoquan He To: Youngjun Park Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, chrisl@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kasong@tencent.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org, mhocko@kernel.org, roman.gushchin@linux.dev, shakeel.butt@linux.dev, muchun.song@linux.dev, shikemeng@huaweicloud.com, nphamcs@gmail.com, baohua@kernel.org, gunho.lee@lge.com, taejoon.song@lge.com, hyungjun.cho@lge.com, mkoutny@suse.com, baver.bae@lge.com, matia.kim@lge.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 4/4] mm: swap: filter swap allocation by memcg tier mask Message-ID: References: <20260527062247.3440692-1-youngjun.park@lge.com> <20260527062247.3440692-5-youngjun.park@lge.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260527062247.3440692-5-youngjun.park@lge.com> X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT On 05/27/26 at 03:22pm, Youngjun Park wrote: > Apply memcg tier effective mask during swap slot allocation to > enforce per-cgroup swap tier restrictions. > > In the fast path, check the percpu cached swap_info's tier_mask > against the folio's effective mask. If it does not match, fall > through to the slow path. In the slow path, skip swap devices > whose tier_mask is not covered by the folio's effective mask. > > This works correctly when there is only one non-rotational > device in the system and no devices share the same priority. > However, there are known limitations: > > - When non-rotational devices are distributed across multiple > tiers, and different memcgs are configured to use those > distinct tiers, they may constantly overwrite the shared > percpu swap cache. This cache thrashing leads to frequent > fast path misses. > > - Combined with the above issue, if same-priority devices exist > among them, a percpu cache miss (overwritten by another memcg) > forces the allocator to round-robin to the next device > prematurely, even if the current cluster is not fully > exhausted. > > These edge cases do not affect the primary use case of > directing swap traffic per cgroup. Further optimization is > planned for future work. > > Signed-off-by: Youngjun Park > --- > mm/swapfile.c | 10 +++++++++- > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) LGTM, Reviewed-by: Baoquan He > > diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c > index 9a86ebe992f4..1a2d29735b71 100644 > --- a/mm/swapfile.c > +++ b/mm/swapfile.c > @@ -1365,14 +1365,18 @@ static bool swap_alloc_fast(struct folio *folio) > struct swap_cluster_info *ci; > struct swap_info_struct *si; > unsigned int offset; > + int mask = folio_tier_effective_mask(folio); > > /* > * Once allocated, swap_info_struct will never be completely freed, > * so checking it's liveness by get_swap_device_info is enough. > */ > si = this_cpu_read(percpu_swap_cluster.si[order]); > + if (!si || !swap_tiers_mask_test(si->tier_mask, mask)) > + return false; > + > offset = this_cpu_read(percpu_swap_cluster.offset[order]); > - if (!si || !offset || !get_swap_device_info(si)) > + if (!offset || !get_swap_device_info(si)) > return false; > > ci = swap_cluster_lock(si, offset); > @@ -1392,10 +1396,14 @@ static bool swap_alloc_fast(struct folio *folio) > static void swap_alloc_slow(struct folio *folio) > { > struct swap_info_struct *si, *next; > + int mask = folio_tier_effective_mask(folio); > > spin_lock(&swap_avail_lock); > start_over: > plist_for_each_entry_safe(si, next, &swap_avail_head, avail_list) { > + if (!swap_tiers_mask_test(si->tier_mask, mask)) > + continue; > + > /* Rotate the device and switch to a new cluster */ > plist_requeue(&si->avail_list, &swap_avail_head); > spin_unlock(&swap_avail_lock); > -- > 2.34.1 > >