Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] mm, swap: don't update the counter up-front

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On 02/25/25 at 02:02am, Kairui Song wrote:
> From: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The counter update before allocation design was useful to avoid
> unnecessary scan when device is full, so it will abort early if the
> counter indicates the device is full. But that is an uncommon case,
> and now scanning of a full device is very fast, so the up-front update
> is not helpful any more.
> 
> Remove it and simplify the slot allocation logic.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/swapfile.c | 18 ++----------------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>

> 
> diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
> index 6f2de59c6355..db836670c334 100644
> --- a/mm/swapfile.c
> +++ b/mm/swapfile.c
> @@ -1201,22 +1201,10 @@ int get_swap_pages(int n_goal, swp_entry_t swp_entries[], int entry_order)
>  	int order = swap_entry_order(entry_order);
>  	unsigned long size = 1 << order;
>  	struct swap_info_struct *si, *next;
> -	long avail_pgs;
>  	int n_ret = 0;
>  	int node;
>  
>  	spin_lock(&swap_avail_lock);
> -
> -	avail_pgs = atomic_long_read(&nr_swap_pages) / size;
> -	if (avail_pgs <= 0) {
> -		spin_unlock(&swap_avail_lock);
> -		goto noswap;
> -	}
> -
> -	n_goal = min3((long)n_goal, (long)SWAP_BATCH, avail_pgs);
> -
> -	atomic_long_sub(n_goal * size, &nr_swap_pages);
> -
>  start_over:
>  	node = numa_node_id();
>  	plist_for_each_entry_safe(si, next, &swap_avail_heads[node], avail_lists[node]) {
> @@ -1250,10 +1238,8 @@ int get_swap_pages(int n_goal, swp_entry_t swp_entries[], int entry_order)
>  	spin_unlock(&swap_avail_lock);
>  
>  check_out:
> -	if (n_ret < n_goal)
> -		atomic_long_add((long)(n_goal - n_ret) * size,
> -				&nr_swap_pages);
> -noswap:
> +	atomic_long_sub(n_ret * size, &nr_swap_pages);
> +
>  	return n_ret;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.48.1
> 





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