Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] mm: ZSWAP swap-out of mTHP folios

[Yosry Ahmed]

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>
> I'm not trying to delay this patch - I fully believe in supporting
> zswap for larger pages (both mTHP and THP - whatever the memory
> reclaim subsystem throws at us).
>
> But we need to get to the bottom of this :) These are very suspicious
> and concerning data. If this is something urgent, I can live with a
> gate to enable/disable this, but I'd much prefer we understand what's
> going on here.

Agreed. I don't think merging this support is urgent, so I think we
should better understand what is happening here. If there is a problem
with how we charge compressed memory today (temporary double charges),
we need to sort this out before the the mTHP support, as it will only
make things worse.

I have to admit I didn't take a deep look at the discussion and data,
so there may be other problems that I didn't notice. It seems to me
like Kanchana is doing more debugging to understand what is happening,
so that's great!

As for the patches, we should sort out the impact on a higher level
before discussing implementation details. From a quick look though it
seems like the first patch can be dropped after Usama's patches that
remove the same-filled handling from zswap land, and the last two
patches can be squashed.