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From: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
To: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: 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>,
	Anthony Iliopoulos <ailiop@suse.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	Adam Manzanares <a.manzanares@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Swap Abstraction / Native Zswap
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2023 18:07:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZAqQ/z7cXCdTsUBl@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJD7tkbCnXJ95Qow_aOjNX6NOMU5ovMSHRC+95U4wtW6cM+puw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 02:38:40PM -0800, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> ==================== Intro ====================
> Currently, using zswap is dependent on swapfiles in an unnecessary
> way. To use zswap, you need a swapfile configured (even if the space
> will not be used) and zswap is restricted by its size.

There's also overlap with zram too. zswap uses zpool and so does its
compression backends (zbud, zsmalloc, z3fold), but zram does not. Vitaly
did a great job at presenting some overlap between all this before, so
perhaps we can summon him as I'd imagine he'd be interested. 

https://lpc.events/event/4/contributions/551/attachments/364/597/zram-decouple.pdf

FWIW we've been using zswap with the whole intention of *never* touching
disk on purpose for years now on kdevops with the goal to just do compression
of memory and avoid having to mess with a block device as preamble. This is
done on the hypervisor with tons of guests, that together with KSM saves *huge*
amount of memory:

https://github.com/linux-kdevops/kdevops/blob/master/docs/kernel-ci/kernel-ci-hypervisor-tuning.md

  Luis


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-10  2:08 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
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 [this message]
2023-03-10  2:15   ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-05-12  3:07 ` Yosry Ahmed

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