Re: [PATCH v3] mm: swap: async free swap slot cache entries

From: Chris Li
Date: Wed Feb 14 2024 - 20:04:11 EST


On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 2:54 PM Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2024-02-14 at 10:56 -0800, Chris Li wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 4:08 PM Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > extern bool swap_slot_cache_enabled;
> > > > +extern uint8_t slot_cache_async_free __read_mostly;
> > >
> > > Why wouldn't you enable the async_free always?
> > > Otherwise the patch looks fine to me.
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback.
> >
> > Just in case someone doesn't care about this optimization and wants to
> > opt out this behavior?
> > Anyway, I am happy to update the patch without the sysfs control file as well.
> >
>
> At least I couldn't see a downside to enable it always in the latest
> patch. I think adding an extra sysfs is unnecessary.

Thanks, I just sent out V4 to remove the sysfs control file.

Chris