Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 4 authors, 2012-03-23

Re: [RFC]swap: don't do discard if no discard option added

From: Holger Kiehl <hidden>
Date: 2012-03-20 18:21:33

Hello,

just tested this patch and this solves my problem where I have very
long boot times and even some timeout problems.

Regards,
Holger


On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Shaohua Li wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Even don't add discard option, swapon will do discard, this sounds buggy,
especially when discard is slow or buggy.

Reported-by: Holger Kiehl <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <redacted>
---
 mm/swapfile.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux/mm/swapfile.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/mm/swapfile.c	2012-03-20 20:11:59.222767526 +0800
+++ linux/mm/swapfile.c	2012-03-20 20:13:25.362767387 +0800
@@ -2105,7 +2105,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __use
			 p->flags |= SWP_SOLIDSTATE;
			 p->cluster_next = 1 + (random32() % p->highest_bit);
		}
-		if (discard_swap(p) == 0 && (swap_flags & SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD))
+		if ((swap_flags & SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD) && discard_swap(p) == 0)
	 		p->flags |= SWP_DISCARDABLE;
	 }
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