Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] mm/zswap: Fixes and improves the zswap shrink

Yosry Ahmed <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.kernel.mm,gmane.linux.documentation
Message-ID <CAO9r8zN4p_AWFU=ckb7QaEMnm0QUep6mgdai2ad20Zfu=VQ=kA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Aug 6, 2026 at 3:41 PM Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu,  6 Aug 2026 15:09:41 +0800 Hao Jia <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > From: Hao Jia <[email protected]>
> >
> > This series fixes and improves the zswap global shrinker (shrink_worker()):
> > Patch 1: Fix missing global shrinker when memory cgroup is disabled.
> > Patch 2: Extend shrink_memcg() to support batch writeback and thereby improving
> >          the writeback efficiency in the shrink_worker() and zswap_store() paths.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Why is a -stable backport proposed for [1/2]?  Its changelog should
> describe the effect of the bug upon our users so that others can
> understand why this was requested.

It's a potential performance regression for people using zswap without
memcg that was introduced by the commit in "Fixes".

>
> AI review suggests there may be an issue in [1/2].  Please check?
>         https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/[email protected]

Same thing from previous versions, shouldn't be a problem in practice.
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