Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] Implement writeback for zsmalloc

[Johannes Weiner]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 11:32:02AM -0800, Nhat Pham wrote:
> Changelog:
> v3:
>   * Set pool->ops = NULL when pool->zpool_ops is null (patch 4).
>   * Stop holding pool's lock when calling lock_zspage() (patch 5).
>     (suggested by Sergey Senozhatsky)
>   * Stop holding pool's lock when checking pool->ops and retries.
>     (patch 5) (suggested by Sergey Senozhatsky)
>   * Fix formatting issues (.shrink, extra spaces in casting removed).
>     (patch 5) (suggested by Sergey Senozhatsky)
> 
> v2:
>   * Add missing CONFIG_ZPOOL ifdefs (patch 5)
>     (detected by kernel test robot).
> 
> Unlike other zswap's allocators such as zbud or z3fold, zsmalloc
> currently lacks the writeback mechanism. This means that when the zswap
> pool is full, it will simply reject further allocations, and the pages
> will be written directly to swap.
> 
> This series of patches implements writeback for zsmalloc. When the zswap
> pool becomes full, zsmalloc will attempt to evict all the compressed
> objects in the least-recently used zspages.
> 
> There are 5 patches in this series:

For the series:

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>