On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 3:09 AM Usama Arif <usamaarif642@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Approximately 10-20% of pages to be swapped out are zero pages [1]. > Rather than reading/writing these pages to flash resulting > in increased I/O and flash wear, a bitmap can be used to mark these > pages as zero at write time, and the pages can be filled at > read time if the bit corresponding to the page is set. > With this patch, NVMe writes in Meta server fleet decreased > by almost 10% with conventional swap setup (zswap disabled). > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20171018104832epcms5p1b2232e2236258de3d03d1344dde9fce0@epcms5p1/ > > Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx>
