Re: [PATCH] swap: Avoid scanning invalidated region for cheap seek

[Shaohua Li]

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 08:53:00PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Mon, 26 May 2014, Chen Yucong wrote:
> 
> > For cheap seek, when we scan the region between si->lowset_bit
> > and scan_base, if san_base is greater than si->highest_bit, the
> > scan operation between si->highest_bit and scan_base is not
> > unnecessary.
> > 
> > This patch can be used to avoid scanning invalidated region for
> > cheap seek.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chen Yucong <slaoub@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I was going to suggest that you are adding a little code to a common
> path, in order to optimize a very unlikely case: which does not seem
> worthwhile to me.
> 
> But digging a little deeper, I think you have hit upon something more
> interesting (though still in no need of your patch): it looks to me
> like that is not even a common path, but dead code.
> 
> Shaohua, am I missing something, or does all SWP_SOLIDSTATE "seek is
> cheap" now go your si->cluster_info scan_swap_map_try_ssd_cluster()
> route?  So that the "last_in_cluster < scan_base" loop in the body
> of scan_swap_map() is just redundant, and should have been deleted?

Sorry for the delay, you are right. SSD case always goes
scan_swap_map_try_ssd_cluster, otherwise we just scan from lowest_bit to
highest_bit, so the "last_in_cluster < scan_base" loop is dead.

Yucong, can you resent a patch to delete it as Hugh suggested?

Thanks,
Shaohua
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