Re: [PATCH v5 4/6] zsmalloc: Add a LRU to zs_pool to keep track of zspages in LRU order

[Minchan Kim]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 03:05:04PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 11:32:01AM -0800, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 10:24:05AM -0800, Nhat Pham wrote:
> > > @@ -1444,6 +1473,11 @@ unsigned long zs_malloc(struct zs_pool *pool, size_t size, gfp_t gfp)
> > > 
> > >  	/* We completely set up zspage so mark them as movable */
> > >  	SetZsPageMovable(pool, zspage);
> > > +out:
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_ZPOOL
> > > +	/* Move the zspage to front of pool's LRU */
> > > +	move_to_front(pool, zspage);
> > > +#endif
> > >  	spin_unlock(&pool->lock);
> > 
> > Please move the move_to_front into zs_map_object with ZS_MM_WO with
> > comment with "why we are doing only for WO case".
> 
> I replied to the other thread, but I disagree with this request.
> 
> The WO exception would be as zswap-specific as is the
> rotate-on-alloc. It doesn't make the resulting zsmalloc code any

That's true but at least, zs_pool allocators have the accessor so
that's fair place to have the LRU updating. I guess that's why
you agreed that's better place. No?

I understand that's zswap-specific that the bad design keeps
pushing smelly code into allocators and then "push to take it
since other were already doing" with "we will take them off with
better solution in future". I am really struggling to understand
this concept. Johannes, Is that really how we work over a decade?

> cleaner or more generic, just weird in a slightly different way.
> 
> On the other hand, it makes zsmalloc deviate from the other backends
> and introduces new callchains that invalidate thousands of machine
> hours of production testing of this code.

Do you really believe the trival change makes invalidates
the testing?

        ret = zpool_malloc(entry->pool->zpool, hlen + dlen, gfp, &handle);
        if (ret == -ENOSPC) {
                zswap_reject_compress_poor++;
                goto put_dstmem;
        }
        if (ret) {
                zswap_reject_alloc_fail++;
                goto put_dstmem;
        }
        buf = zpool_map_handle(entry->pool->zpool, handle, ZPOOL_MM_WO);
        memcpy(buf, &zhdr, hlen);
        memcpy(buf + hlen, dst, dlen);
        zpool_unmap_handle(entry->pool->zpool, handle);