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SubjectRe: [PATCH] block/psi: make PSI annotations of submit_bio only work for file pages
On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 10:33:20AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 06:39:28AM +0000, cgel.zte@gmail.com wrote:
> > From: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
> >
> > psi tracks the time spent on submitting the IO of refaulting file pages
> > and anonymous pages[1]. But after we tracks refaulting anonymous pages
> > in swap_readpage[2][3], there is no need to track refaulting anonymous
> > pages in submit_bio.
> >
> > So this patch can reduce redundant calling of psi_memstall_enter. And
> > make it easier to track refaulting file pages and anonymous pages
> > separately.
>
> I don't think this is an improvement.
>
> psi_memstall_enter() will check current->in_memstall once, detect the
> nested call, and bail. Your patch checks PageSwapBacked for every page
> being added. It's more branches for less robust code.

And PageSwapBacked checking is after unlikely(PageWorkingset(page), so I think
the impact is little.

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