Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] mm/zswap: directly use percpu mutex and buffer in load/store

[Chengming Zhou]

On 2023/12/18 17:37, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 12:22 AM Chengming Zhou
> <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Since the introduce of reusing the dstmem in the load path, it seems
>> confusing that we are now using acomp_ctx->dstmem and acomp_ctx->mutex
>> now for purposes other than what the naming suggests.
>>
>> Yosry suggested removing these two fields from acomp_ctx, and directly
>> using zswap_dstmem and zswap_mutex in both the load and store paths,
>> rename them, and add proper comments above their definitions that they
>> are for generic percpu buffering on the load and store paths.
>>
>> So this patch remove dstmem and mutex from acomp_ctx, and rename the
>> zswap_dstmem to zswap_buffer, using the percpu mutex and buffer on
>> the load and store paths. And refactor out __zswap_store() to only
>> include the compress & store, since I found zswap_store() is too long.
> 
> I am not sure refactoring out __zswap_store() is useful to be honest,
> but I am not objecting to it, it mirrors __zswap_load() in a sense.
> However, if you want to do so, please do it in a separate patch from
> renaming the percpu buffers and mutex. This will make reviewing easier
> (and make my Suggested-by correctly scoped).
> 

After thinking twice, I dropped the __zswap_store() part. Right, it's
not much useful.

Thanks.