Re: [PATCH v4 2/6] mm/zswap: reuse dstmem when decompress

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Jan 25 2024 - 04:41:43 EST


On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 03:57:59PM +1300, Barry Song wrote:
>
> > We could certainly do that. But I wonder if it might actually be
> > better for you to allocate a second sync-only algorithm for such
> > cases. I'd like to see some real numbers.
>
> some hardware might want to use an accelerator to help offload CPU's
> work. their drivers are working in async mode, for example, hisilicon
> and intel.
>
> I don't have the exact number we can save by removing the redundant
> memcpy, nor do i have a proper hardware to test and get the number.
> As Chengming is actually working in zswap, i wonder if you can test
> my patches and post some data?

I don't have the hardware to test this. Since you're proposing
the change, please test it to ensure that we're not adding cruft
to the API that's actually detrimental to performance.

Thanks,
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