Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] variable-order, large folios for anonymous memory

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 02:11:19PM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 07, 2023 at 02:12:01PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 07, 2023 at 01:40:53PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > 
> > > Is swapping working as expected? zswap?
> > 
> > Suboptimally.  Swap will split folios in order to swap them.
> 
> Wouldn't that mean if high order folios are used a lot but swap is also
> used, until this is fixed you wouldn't get the expected reclaim gains
> for high order folios and we'd need compaction more then?

They're split in shrink_folio_list(), so they stay intact until
that point?

> > Somebody needs to fix that, but it should work.
> 
> As we look at shmem stuff it was on the path so something we have
> considered doing. Ie, it's on our team's list of items to help with
> but currently on a backburner.

Something I was thinking about is that you'll need to prohibit swap
devices or swap files being created on large block devices.  Until
we rewrite the entire swap subsystem ...