Re: [PATCH v2 6/9] mm/swap: handle swapcache lookup in swapin_entry

[Kairui Song]

Huang, Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> 于2024年1月8日周一 16:28写道：
>
> Kairui Song <ryncsn@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
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> > From: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Since all callers of swapin_entry need to check the swap cache first, we
> > can merge this common routine into swapin_entry, so it can be shared and
> > optimized later.
> >
> > Also introduce a enum to better represent possible swap cache usage, and
> > add some comments about it, make the usage of swap cache easier to
> > understand.
>
> I don't find any benefit to do this.  The code line number isn't
> reduced.  The concept of swap cache isn't hided either.

Hi Ying

Thanks for the comments.

Maybe I should squash this with the following commit? The following
commit want to do cache lookup in swapin_entry to avoid a redundant
shadow lookup, it can help to improve the performance by about 4% for
swapin path. So it need to return a enum to represent cache status.

Further more, note the comments added here:

+/*
+ * Caller of swapin_entry may need to know the cache lookup result:
+ *
+ * SWAP_CACHE_HIT: cache hit, cached folio is retured.
+ * SWAP_CACHE_MISS: cache miss, folio is allocated, read from swap device
+ *                  and adde to swap cache, but still may return a cached
+ *                  folio if raced (check __read_swap_cache_async).
+ * SWAP_CACHE_BYPASS: cache miss, folio is new allocated and read
+ *                    from swap device bypassing the cache.
+ */

SWAP_CACHE_MISS might be inaccurate, this is not an issue introduced
by this commit, but better exposed. May worth a fix later. So far I
can see two benefits fixing it:
- More accurate maj/min page fault count.
- Note the PageHWPoison check in do_swap_page, it ignored the race
case, if a page getting poisoned is raced with swapcache then it may
not work as expected.

These are all minor issue indeed, some other optimization might also
be doable, but at least a comment might be helpful.

> --
> Best Regards,
> Huang, Ying
>