Re: [PATCH -mm -v10 1/3] mm, THP, swap: Delay splitting THP during swap out

[Johannes Weiner]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 05:40:44PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> However, get_swap_page is ugly now. The caller should take care of
> failure and should retry after split. I hope get_swap_page includes
> split and retry logic in itself without reling on the caller.

I think this makes the interface terrible. It's an allocation function
to which you pass a reference object for size - and if the allocation
doesn't succeed it'll split your reference object to make it fit?

That's a nasty side effect for this function to have.