From: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
To: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>,
Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>,
Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>,
Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Aneesh Kumar K V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Swap Abstraction / Native Zswap
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:01:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZCNjsopNzd9IU7TX@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJD7tkYdnPcS9p4yLepJhR6Yth+2jJKNH37u0mRzeSprW1x=Lg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 02:44:27PM -0700, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> > Your swap descriptor will be using one swp_entry_t, which get from the PTE
> > to lookup, right? That is the swap entry I am talking about. You just
> > substitute zswap swap entry with the swap descriptor swap entry.
> > You still need to allocate from the free swap entry space at least once.
>
> Oh, you mean the swap ID space. We just need to find an unused ID, we
> can simply use an allocating xarray
> (https://docs.kernel.org/core-api/xarray.html#allocating-xarrays).
> This is simpler than keeping track of swap slots in a swapfile.
Ah I see. That makes sense. Thanks for explaining it to me.
The real block swap device will still need to scan the swap_map
to find an empty space to write the page.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-28 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 105+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-18 22:38 [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Swap Abstraction / Native Zswap Yosry Ahmed
2023-02-19 4:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-02-19 9:34 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-02-28 23:22 ` Chris Li
2023-03-01 0:08 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-03-01 23:22 ` Chris Li
2023-02-21 18:39 ` Yang Shi
2023-02-21 18:56 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-02-21 19:26 ` Yang Shi
2023-02-21 19:46 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-02-21 23:34 ` Yang Shi
2023-02-21 23:38 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-02-22 16:57 ` Johannes Weiner
2023-02-22 22:46 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-02-28 4:29 ` Kalesh Singh
2023-02-28 8:09 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-02-28 4:54 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2023-02-28 8:12 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-02-28 23:29 ` Minchan Kim
2023-03-02 0:58 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-02 1:25 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-02 17:05 ` Chris Li
2023-03-02 17:47 ` Chris Li
2023-03-02 18:15 ` Johannes Weiner
2023-03-02 18:56 ` Chris Li
2023-03-02 18:23 ` Rik van Riel
2023-03-02 21:42 ` Chris Li
2023-03-02 22:36 ` Rik van Riel
2023-03-02 22:55 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-03 4:05 ` Chris Li
2023-03-03 0:01 ` Chris Li
2023-03-02 16:58 ` Chris Li
2023-03-01 10:44 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2023-03-02 1:01 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-02-28 23:11 ` Chris Li
2023-03-02 0:30 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-02 1:00 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-02 16:51 ` Chris Li
2023-03-03 0:33 ` Minchan Kim
2023-03-03 0:49 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-03 1:25 ` Minchan Kim
2023-03-03 17:15 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-09 12:48 ` Huang, Ying
2023-03-09 19:58 ` Chris Li
2023-03-09 20:19 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-10 3:06 ` Huang, Ying
2023-03-10 23:14 ` Chris Li
2023-03-13 1:10 ` Huang, Ying
2023-03-15 7:41 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-16 1:42 ` Huang, Ying
2023-03-11 1:06 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-13 2:12 ` Huang, Ying
2023-03-15 8:01 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-16 7:50 ` Huang, Ying
2023-03-17 10:19 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-17 18:19 ` Chris Li
2023-03-17 18:23 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-20 2:55 ` Huang, Ying
2023-03-20 6:25 ` Chris Li
2023-03-23 0:56 ` Huang, Ying
2023-03-23 6:46 ` Chris Li
2023-03-23 6:56 ` Huang, Ying
2023-03-23 18:28 ` Chris Li
2023-03-23 18:40 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-23 19:49 ` Chris Li
2023-03-23 19:54 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-23 21:10 ` Chris Li
2023-03-24 17:28 ` Chris Li
2023-03-22 5:56 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-23 1:48 ` Huang, Ying
2023-03-23 2:21 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-23 3:16 ` Huang, Ying
2023-03-23 3:27 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-23 5:37 ` Huang, Ying
2023-03-23 15:18 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-24 2:37 ` Huang, Ying
2023-03-24 7:28 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-24 17:23 ` Chris Li
2023-03-27 1:23 ` Huang, Ying
2023-03-28 5:54 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-28 6:20 ` Huang, Ying
2023-03-28 6:29 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-28 6:59 ` Huang, Ying
2023-03-28 7:59 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-28 14:14 ` Johannes Weiner
2023-03-28 19:59 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-28 21:22 ` Chris Li
2023-03-28 21:30 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-28 20:50 ` Chris Li
2023-03-28 21:01 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-28 21:32 ` Chris Li
2023-03-28 21:44 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-28 22:01 ` Chris Li [this message]
2023-03-28 22:02 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-29 1:31 ` Huang, Ying
2023-03-29 1:41 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-03-29 16:04 ` Chris Li
2023-04-04 8:24 ` Huang, Ying
2023-04-04 8:10 ` Huang, Ying
2023-04-04 8:47 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-04-06 1:40 ` Huang, Ying
2023-03-29 15:22 ` Chris Li
2023-03-10 2:07 ` Luis Chamberlain
2023-03-10 2:15 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-05-12 3:07 ` Yosry Ahmed
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