[PATCH v2 5/8] mm: zswap: Store the folio's node id in the zswap_entry.

From: Kanchana P. Sridhar

Date: Tue Oct 27 2026 - 23:07:36 EST


When storing a folio in zswap, save the folio's node id in the zswap
entry instead of relying on the zswap_entry being allocated on the same
node. This enables optimizations such as batch allocation of zswap
entries for large folios using kmem_cache_alloc_bulk() that does not
support specifying a node id.

Accordingly, replace the SLUB allocation in zswap_entry_cache_alloc() to
be node-agnostic.

The size of the zswap_entry remains unchanged as 'referenced' is lumped
in with the 'length' (as it doesn't need a full unsigned int anyway).
A build time assertion checks for the zswap_entry's 'length' bitfield
being at least as large as the PAGE_SHIFT, which can be 18 on some
architectures.

Suggested-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@xxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kanchana P Sridhar <kanchana.p.sridhar@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kanchana P. Sridhar <kanchanapsridhar2026@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/zswap.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
index e1d57a7d9595..19b7d60bc7d2 100644
--- a/mm/zswap.c
+++ b/mm/zswap.c
@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ struct zswap_pool {
*/
#define ZSWAP_FIRST_POOL_ID 1
#define ZSWAP_MAX_POOL_ID U8_MAX
+#define ZSWAP_MAX_COMPR_LENGTH_SHIFT 18U
static DEFINE_XARRAY_FLAGS(zswap_pools, XA_FLAGS_ALLOC1 | XA_FLAGS_LOCK_BH);
static struct zswap_pool __rcu *zswap_current_pool;

@@ -206,15 +207,19 @@ static struct shrinker *zswap_shrinker;
* logic if referenced is unset. See comments in the shrinker
* section for context.
* pool_idx - id of the zswap_pool that the entry's data is in.
+ * nid - NUMA node id of the page for which this is the zswap entry.
* handle - zsmalloc allocation handle that stores the compressed page data
* objcg - the obj_cgroup that the compressed memory is charged to
* lru - handle to the pool's lru used to evict pages.
*/
struct zswap_entry {
swp_entry_t swpentry;
- unsigned int length;
- bool referenced;
- u8 pool_idx;
+ struct {
+ unsigned int length:ZSWAP_MAX_COMPR_LENGTH_SHIFT;
+ bool referenced:1U;
+ u8 pool_idx;
+ };
+ int nid;
unsigned long handle;
struct obj_cgroup *objcg;
struct list_head lru;
@@ -679,14 +684,8 @@ static int zswap_enabled_param_set(const char *val,
* lru functions
**********************************/

-static inline int entry_to_nid(struct zswap_entry *entry)
-{
- return page_to_nid(virt_to_page(entry));
-}
-
static void zswap_lru_add(struct zswap_entry *entry)
{
- int nid = entry_to_nid(entry);
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;

/*
@@ -703,19 +702,18 @@ static void zswap_lru_add(struct zswap_entry *entry)
rcu_read_lock();
memcg = obj_cgroup_memcg(entry->objcg);
/* will always succeed */
- list_lru_add(&zswap_list_lru, &entry->lru, nid, memcg);
+ list_lru_add(&zswap_list_lru, &entry->lru, entry->nid, memcg);
rcu_read_unlock();
}

static void zswap_lru_del(struct zswap_entry *entry)
{
- int nid = entry_to_nid(entry);
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;

rcu_read_lock();
memcg = obj_cgroup_memcg(entry->objcg);
/* will always succeed */
- list_lru_del(&zswap_list_lru, &entry->lru, nid, memcg);
+ list_lru_del(&zswap_list_lru, &entry->lru, entry->nid, memcg);
rcu_read_unlock();
}

@@ -763,10 +761,11 @@ void zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
**********************************/
static struct kmem_cache *zswap_entry_cache;

-static struct zswap_entry *zswap_entry_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp, int nid)
+static struct zswap_entry *zswap_entry_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp)
{
struct zswap_entry *entry;
- entry = kmem_cache_alloc_node(zswap_entry_cache, gfp, nid);
+
+ entry = kmem_cache_alloc(zswap_entry_cache, gfp);
if (!entry)
return NULL;
return entry;
@@ -1507,9 +1506,10 @@ static bool zswap_store_page(struct folio *folio, long index,
{
swp_entry_t page_swpentry = folio_swap_entry(folio, index);
struct zswap_entry *entry, *old;
+ int nid = folio_nid(folio);

/* allocate entry */
- entry = zswap_entry_cache_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, folio_nid(folio));
+ entry = zswap_entry_cache_alloc(GFP_KERNEL);
if (!entry) {
zswap_reject_kmemcache_fail++;
return false;
@@ -1524,6 +1524,7 @@ static bool zswap_store_page(struct folio *folio, long index,
* to an unrelated live pool.
*/
entry->pool_idx = pool->idx;
+ entry->nid = nid;

old = xa_store(swap_zswap_tree(page_swpentry),
swp_offset(page_swpentry),
@@ -1897,6 +1898,8 @@ static int zswap_setup(void)
struct zswap_pool *pool;
int ret;

+ BUILD_BUG_ON(ZSWAP_MAX_COMPR_LENGTH_SHIFT < PAGE_SHIFT);
+
zswap_entry_cache = KMEM_CACHE(zswap_entry, 0);
if (!zswap_entry_cache) {
pr_err("entry cache creation failed\n");
--
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