Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mm: swap: check if swap backing device is congested or not

From: Tim Chen
Date: Tue Dec 18 2018 - 14:29:28 EST


On 12/17/18 10:52 PM, Yang Shi wrote:

>
> diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c
> index fd2f21e..7cc3c29 100644
> --- a/mm/swap_state.c
> +++ b/mm/swap_state.c
> @@ -538,11 +538,15 @@ struct page *swap_cluster_readahead(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> bool do_poll = true, page_allocated;
> struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma;
> unsigned long addr = vmf->address;
> + struct inode *inode = si->swap_file->f_mapping->host;
>
> mask = swapin_nr_pages(offset) - 1;
> if (!mask)
> goto skip;
>

Shmem will also be using this function and I don't think the inode_read_congested
logic is relevant for that case.

So probably change the check to

if (swp_type(entry) < nr_swapfiles &&
inode_read_congested(si->swap_file->f_mapping->host))
goto skip;

> + if (inode_read_congested(inode))
> + goto skip;
> +
> do_poll = false;
> /* Read a page_cluster sized and aligned cluster around offset. */
> start_offset = offset & ~mask;
>

Thanks.

Tim