Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Mar 2022 03:44:28 +0000 | From | CGEL <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] block/psi: make PSI annotations of submit_bio only work for file pages |
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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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