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[209.85.166.41]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 125sm10205414iow.9.2021.08.03.11.01.27 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 03 Aug 2021 11:01:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-io1-f41.google.com with SMTP id h1so25229806iol.9 for ; Tue, 03 Aug 2021 11:01:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a05:6638:cba:: with SMTP id x26mr16380694jad.98.1628013687178; Tue, 03 Aug 2021 11:01:27 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20210726171106.v4.1.I09866d90c6de14f21223a03e9e6a31f8a02ecbaf@changeid> <6ff28cfe-1107-347b-0327-ad36e256141b@redhat.com> <20210727141832.86695e7181eb10c6e8fd0191@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20210727141832.86695e7181eb10c6e8fd0191@linux-foundation.org> From: Evan Green Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 11:00:51 -0700 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] mm: Enable suspend-only swap spaces To: Andrew Morton Cc: David Hildenbrand , Michal Hocko , Pavel Machek , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Alex Shi , Alistair Popple , Johannes Weiner , Joonsoo Kim , "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" , Miaohe Lin , Minchan Kim , Suren Baghdasaryan , Vlastimil Babka , LKML , linux-mm@kvack.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Rspamd-Server: rspam04 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: D86DC9006843 Authentication-Results: imf23.hostedemail.com; dkim=pass header.d=chromium.org header.s=google header.b=Z4v4AiDH; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=chromium.org; spf=pass (imf23.hostedemail.com: domain of evgreen@chromium.org designates 209.85.166.49 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=evgreen@chromium.org X-Stat-Signature: kf7azps8w6pskcy6s6oexwd1wrs7k4yx X-HE-Tag: 1628013689-673133 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 2:18 PM Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 09:31:33 -0700 Evan Green wrote: > > > > Pavel just mentioned uswsusp, and I wonder if it would be a possible > > > alternative to this patch. > > > > I think you're right that it would be possible to isolate the > > hibernate image with uswsusp if you avoid using the SNAPSHOT_*SWAP* > > ioctls. But I'd expect performance to suffer noticeably, since now > > every page is making a round trip out to usermode and back. I'd still > > very much use the HIBERNATE_ONLY flag if it were accepted, I think > > there's value to it. > > The uswsusp option makes your patch a performance optimization rather > than a feature-add. And we do like to see quantitative testing results > when considering a performance optimization. Especially when the > performance optimization is a bit icky, putting special-case testing > all over the place, maintenance cost, additional testing effort, etc. > > I do think that diligence demands that we quantify the difference. Is > this a thing you can help with? I'm wrong about the performance. Uswsusp is just as fast, and possibly faster in my use case than kernel-driven hibernate. What's more, uswsusp also helps me solve several additional problems I hadn't tackled yet that were looming in front of me. Thanks all for your patience and thoughtful review on this. Patch withdrawn. -Evan