Re: [PATCH] block/psi: make PSI annotations of submit_bio only work for file pages
From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Mar 30 2022 - 11:54:18 EST
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 11:45:56AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > FYI, I started redoing that version and I think with all the cleanups
> > to filemap.c and the readahead code this can be done fairly nicely now:
> >
> > http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/block.git/commitdiff/666abb29c6db870d3941acc5ac19e83fbc72cfd4
>
> Yes, it's definitely much nicer now with the MM instantiating the
> pages for ->readpage(s).
>
> But AFAICS this breaks compressed btrfs (and erofs?) because those
> still do additional add_to_page_cache_lru() and bio submissions.
In btrfs, add_ra_bio_pages only passed freshly allocated pages to
add_to_page_cache_lru. These can't really have PageWorkingSet set,
can they? In erofs they can also come from a local page pool, but
I think otherwise the same applies.