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This patch fixes the zswap global shrinker, which did not shrink the zpool
as expected.
The issue addressed is that shrink_worker() did not distinguish between
unexpected errors and expected errors, such as failed writeback from an
empty memcg. The shrinker would stop shrinking after iterating through
the memcg tree 16 times, even if there was only one empty memcg.
With this patch, the shrinker no longer considers encountering an empty
memcg, encountering a memcg with writeback disabled, or reaching the end
of a memcg tree walk as a failure, as long as there are memcgs that are
candidates for writeback. Systems with one or more empty memcgs will now
observe significantly higher zswap writeback activity after the zswap pool
limit is hit.
To avoid an infinite loop when there are no writeback candidates, this
patch tracks writeback attempts during memcg tree walks and limits reties
if no writeback candidates are found.
To handle the empty memcg case, the helper function shrink_memcg() is
modified to check if the memcg is empty and then return -ENOENT.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240731004918.33182-3-flintglass@gmail.com
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| drivers | ||
| fs | ||
| include | ||
| init | ||
| io_uring | ||
| ipc | ||
| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| LICENSES | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| rust | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .clang-format | ||
| .cocciconfig | ||
| .editorconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| .rustfmt.toml | ||
| COPYING | ||
| CREDITS | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
| README | ||
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.