On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 06:29:18PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> Not every object can be share its zspage with other objects, e.g.
> when the object is as big as zspage or nearly as big a zspage.
> For such objects zsmalloc has a so called huge class - every object
> which belongs to huge class consumes the entire zspage (which
> consists of a physical page). On x86_64, PAGE_SHIFT 12 box, the
> first non-huge class size is 3264, so starting down from size 3264,
> objects can share page(-s) and thus minimize memory wastage.
>
> ZRAM, however, has its own statically defined watermark for huge
> objects - "3 * PAGE_SIZE / 4 = 3072", and forcibly stores every
> object larger than this watermark (3072) as a PAGE_SIZE object,
> in other words, to a huge class, while zsmalloc can keep some of
> those objects in non-huge classes. This results in increased
> memory consumption.
>
> zsmalloc knows better if the object is huge or not. Introduce
> zs_huge_object() function which tells if the given object can be
> stored in one of non-huge classes or not. This will let us to drop
> ZRAM's huge object watermark and fully rely on zsmalloc when we
> decide if the object is huge.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/zsmalloc.h | 2 ++
> mm/zsmalloc.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/zsmalloc.h b/include/linux/zsmalloc.h
> index 57a8e98f2708..9a1baf673cc1 100644
> --- a/include/linux/zsmalloc.h
> +++ b/include/linux/zsmalloc.h
> @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ void zs_destroy_pool(struct zs_pool *pool);
> unsigned long zs_malloc(struct zs_pool *pool, size_t size, gfp_t flags);
> void zs_free(struct zs_pool *pool, unsigned long obj);
>
> +bool zs_huge_object(size_t sz);
> +
> void *zs_map_object(struct zs_pool *pool, unsigned long handle,
> enum zs_mapmode mm);
> void zs_unmap_object(struct zs_pool *pool, unsigned long handle);
> diff --git a/mm/zsmalloc.c b/mm/zsmalloc.c
> index c3013505c305..b3e295a806be 100644
> --- a/mm/zsmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/zsmalloc.c
> @@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ static struct vfsmount *zsmalloc_mnt;
> * (see: fix_fullness_group())
> */
> static const int fullness_threshold_frac = 4;
> +static size_t zs_huge_class_size;
>
> struct size_class {
> spinlock_t lock;
> @@ -1417,6 +1418,19 @@ void zs_unmap_object(struct zs_pool *pool, unsigned long handle)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(zs_unmap_object);
>
> +/*
> + * Check if the object's size falls into huge_class area. We must take
> + * ZS_HANDLE_SIZE into account and test the actual size we are going to
> + * use up. zs_malloc() unconditionally adds handle size before it performs
> + * size_class lookup, so we may endup in a huge class yet zs_huge_object()
> + * returned 'false'.
> + */
Can you please reformat this comment as kernel-doc?
> +bool zs_huge_object(size_t sz)
> +{
> + return sz + ZS_HANDLE_SIZE >= zs_huge_class_size;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(zs_huge_object);
> +
> static unsigned long obj_malloc(struct size_class *class,
> struct zspage *zspage, unsigned long handle)
> {
> @@ -2404,6 +2418,9 @@ struct zs_pool *zs_create_pool(const char *name)
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&class->fullness_list[fullness]);
>
> prev_class = class;
> + if (pages_per_zspage == 1 && objs_per_zspage == 1
> + && !zs_huge_class_size)
> + zs_huge_class_size = size;
> }
>
> /* debug only, don't abort if it fails */
> --
> 2.16.1
>
> --
> To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
> the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM,
> see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
> Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
>
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM,
see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
