Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]> writes:

> On (06/27/18 21:51), Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:51:30 +0800 "Huang, Ying" <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> > This is the final step of THP (Transparent Huge Page) swap
>> > optimization.  After the first and second step, the splitting huge
>> > page is delayed from almost the first step of swapout to after swapout
>> > has been finished.  In this step, we avoid splitting THP for swapout
>> > and swapout/swapin the THP in one piece.
>> 
>> It's a tremendously good performance improvement.  It's also a
>> tremendously large patchset :(
>
> Will zswap gain a THP swap out/in support at some point?
>
>
> mm/zswap.c: static int zswap_frontswap_store(...)
> ...
>       /* THP isn't supported */
>       if (PageTransHuge(page)) {
>               ret = -EINVAL;
>               goto reject;
>       }

That's not on my TODO list.  Do you have interest to work on this?

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying

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