On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 03:06:00AM +0000, Chengming Zhou wrote:
> During testing I found there are some times the zswap_writeback_entry()
> return -ENOMEM, which is not we expected:
>
> bpftrace -e 'kr:zswap_writeback_entry {@[(int32)retval]=count()}'
> @[-12]: 1563
> @[0]: 277221
>
> The reason is that __read_swap_cache_async() return NULL because
> swapcache_prepare() failed. The reason is that we won't invalidate
> zswap entry when swap entry freed to the per-cpu pool, these zswap
> entries are still on the zswap tree and lru list.
>
> This patch moves the invalidation ahead to when swap entry freed
> to the per-cpu pool, since there is no any benefit to leave trashy
> zswap entry on the tree and lru list.
>
> With this patch:
> bpftrace -e 'kr:zswap_writeback_entry {@[(int32)retval]=count()}'
> @[0]: 259744
>
> Note: large folio can't have zswap entry for now, so don't bother
> to add zswap entry invalidation in the large folio swap free path.
>
> Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx>
