Re: [PATCH v9] zswap: replace RB tree with xarray

From: Chris Li
Date: Tue Mar 26 2024 - 17:03:25 EST


On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 1:48 PM Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 11:35:43AM -0700, Chris Li wrote:
> > /*
> > - * When reading into the swapcache, invalidate our entry. The
> > + * When reading into the swapcache, erase our entry. The
> > * swapcache can be the authoritative owner of the page and
> > * its mappings, and the pressure that results from having two
> > * in-memory copies outweighs any benefits of caching the
>
> Not sure why you editorialized this? Your patch doesn't change those
> semantics, for which "invalidation" of the backing copy is a much
> better description, given we're also marking the folio dirty again etc.

I was thinking the zswap_invalidate_entry function was deleted now. So
I use the erase to match the xa_erase().
>
> Can you please send a delta fix to undo that?

Sure.

Chris

>
> > @@ -1649,8 +1581,12 @@ bool zswap_load(struct folio *folio)
> > * the fault fails. We remain the primary owner of the entry.)
> > */
> > if (swapcache)
> > - zswap_rb_erase(&tree->rbroot, entry);
> > - spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
> > + entry = xa_erase(tree, offset);
> > + else
> > + entry = xa_load(tree, offset);
> > +
> > + if (!entry)
> > + return false;
> >
> > if (entry->length)
> > zswap_decompress(entry, page);
>
> Otherwise, looks good to me
>
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>