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The !zswap_exclusive_loads_enabled mode will leave compressed copy in the zswap tree and lru list after the folio swapin. There are some disadvantages in this mode: 1. It's a waste of memory since there are two copies of data, one is folio, the other one is compressed data in zswap. And it's unlikely the compressed data is useful in the near future. 2. If that folio is dirtied, the compressed data must be not useful, but we don't know and don't invalidate the trashy memory in zswap. 3. It's not reclaimable from zswap shrinker since zswap_writeback_entry() will always return -EEXIST and terminate the shrinking process. On the other hand, the only downside of zswap_exclusive_loads_enabled is a little more cpu usage/latency when compression, and the same if the folio is removed from swapcache or dirtied. More explanation by Johannes on why we should consider exclusive load as the default for zswap: Caching "swapout work" is helpful when the system is thrashing. Then recently swapped in pages might get swapped out again very soon. It certainly makes sense with conventional swap, because keeping a clean copy on the disk saves IO work and doesn't cost any additional memory. But with zswap, it's different. It saves some compression work on a thrashing page. But the act of keeping compressed memory contributes to a higher rate of thrashing. And that can cause IO in other places like zswap writeback and file memory. And the A/B test results of the kernel build in tmpfs with limited memory can support this theory: !exclusive exclusive real 63.80 63.01 user 1063.83 1061.32 sys 290.31 266.15 workingset_refault_anon 2383084.40 1976397.40 workingset_refault_file 44134.00 45689.40 workingset_activate_anon 837878.00 728441.20 workingset_activate_file 4710.00 4085.20 workingset_restore_anon 732622.60 639428.40 workingset_restore_file 1007.00 926.80 workingset_nodereclaim 0.00 0.00 pgscan 14343003.40 12409570.20 pgscan_kswapd 0.00 0.00 pgscan_direct 14343003.40 12409570.20 pgscan_khugepaged 0.00 0.00 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240201-b4-zswap-invalidate-entry-v2-5-99d4084260a0@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com> Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.