RE: [PATCH v3 12/13] mm: Add sysctl vm.compress-batching switch for compress batching during swapout.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, November 8, 2024 12:24 PM
> To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 12/13] mm: Add sysctl vm.compress-batching switch
> for compress batching during swapout.
> 
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 9:34 AM Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 11:21:04AM -0800, Kanchana P Sridhar wrote:
> > > The sysctl vm.compress-batching parameter is 0 by default. If the platform
> > > has Intel IAA, the user can run experiments with IAA compress batching of
> > > large folios in zswap_store() as follows:
> > >
> > > sysctl vm.compress-batching=1
> > > echo deflate-iaa > /sys/module/zswap/parameters/compressor
> >
> > A sysctl seems uncalled for. Can't the batching code be gated on
> > deflate-iaa being the compressor? It can still be generalized later if
> > another compressor is shown to benefit from batching.
> 
> +1

Thanks Yosry & Johannes. Will proceed as suggested.

Thanks,
Kanchana




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