Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] mm/zswap: avoid unnecessary page scanning

From: Bob Liu
Date: Fri Sep 06 2013 - 02:32:16 EST



On 09/06/2013 01:16 PM, Weijie Yang wrote:
> add SetPageReclaim before __swap_writepage so that page can be moved to the
> tail of the inactive list, which can avoid unnecessary page scanning as this
> page was reclaimed by swap subsystem before.
>
> Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> mm/zswap.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
> index 1be7b90..cc40e6a 100644
> --- a/mm/zswap.c
> +++ b/mm/zswap.c
> @@ -556,6 +556,9 @@ static int zswap_writeback_entry(struct zbud_pool *pool, unsigned long handle)
> SetPageUptodate(page);
> }
>
> + /* move it to the tail of the inactive list after end_writeback */
> + SetPageReclaim(page);
> +
> /* start writeback */
> __swap_writepage(page, &wbc, end_swap_bio_write);
> page_cache_release(page);
>

--
Regards,
-Bob
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