On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 12:12:13PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Profiling the munmap() of a zswapped memory region shows 50%(!) of the
> total cycles currently going into updating the zswap_pool_total_size.
Yikes. I have always hated that size update scheme FWIW.
I have also wondered whether it makes sense to just maintain the number
of pages in zswap as an atomic, like zswap_stored_pages. I guess your
proposed scheme is even cheaper for the load/invalidate paths because we
do nothing at all. It could be an option if the aggregation in other
paths ever becomes a problem, but we would need to make sure it
doesn't regress the load/invalidate paths. Just sharing some thoughts.
>
> There are three consumers of this counter:
> - store, to enforce the globally configured pool limit
> - meminfo & debugfs, to report the size to the user
> - shrink, to determine the batch size for each cycle
>
> Instead of aggregating everytime an entry enters or exits the zswap
> pool, aggregate the value from the zpools on-demand:
>
> - Stores aggregate the counter anyway upon success. Aggregating to
> check the limit instead is the same amount of work.
>
> - Meminfo & debugfs might benefit somewhat from a pre-aggregated
> counter, but aren't exactly hotpaths.
>
> - Shrinking can aggregate once for every cycle instead of doing it for
> every freed entry. As the shrinker might work on tens or hundreds of
> objects per scan cycle, this is a large reduction in aggregations.
>
> The paths that benefit dramatically are swapin, swapoff, and
> unmaps. There could be millions of pages being processed until
> somebody asks for the pool size again. This eliminates the pool size
> updates from those paths entirely.
This looks like a big win, thanks! I wonder if you have any numbers of
perf profiles to share. That would be nice to have, but I think the
benefit is clear regardless.
I also like the implicit cleanup when we switch to maintaining the
number of pages rather than bytes. The code looks much better with all
the shifts and divisions gone :)
I have a couple of comments below. With them addressed, feel free to
add:
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx>
[..]
> @@ -1385,6 +1365,10 @@ static void shrink_worker(struct work_struct *w)
> {
> struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
> int ret, failures = 0;
> + unsigned long thr;
> +
> + /* Reclaim down to the accept threshold */
> + thr = zswap_max_pages() * zswap_accept_thr_percent / 100;
This calculation is repeated twice, so I'd rather keep a helper for it
as an alternative to zswap_can_accept(). Perhaps zswap_threshold_page()
or zswap_acceptance_pages()?
>
> /* global reclaim will select cgroup in a round-robin fashion. */
> do {
> @@ -1432,10 +1416,9 @@ static void shrink_worker(struct work_struct *w)
> break;
> if (ret && ++failures == MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES)
> break;
> -
> resched:
> cond_resched();
> - } while (!zswap_can_accept());
> + } while (zswap_total_pages() > thr);
> }
[..]
> @@ -1711,6 +1700,13 @@ void zswap_swapoff(int type)
>
> static struct dentry *zswap_debugfs_root;
>
> +static int debugfs_get_total_size(void *data, u64 *val)
> +{
> + *val = zswap_total_pages() * PAGE_SIZE;
> + return 0;
> +}
> +DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE(total_size_fops, debugfs_get_total_size, NULL, "%llu");
I think we are missing a newline here to maintain the current format
(i.e "%llu\n").
> +
> static int zswap_debugfs_init(void)
> {
> if (!debugfs_initialized())
> @@ -1732,8 +1728,8 @@ static int zswap_debugfs_init(void)
> zswap_debugfs_root, &zswap_reject_compress_poor);
> debugfs_create_u64("written_back_pages", 0444,
> zswap_debugfs_root, &zswap_written_back_pages);
> - debugfs_create_u64("pool_total_size", 0444,
> - zswap_debugfs_root, &zswap_pool_total_size);
> + debugfs_create_file("pool_total_size", 0444,
> + zswap_debugfs_root, NULL, &total_size_fops);
> debugfs_create_atomic_t("stored_pages", 0444,
> zswap_debugfs_root, &zswap_stored_pages);
> debugfs_create_atomic_t("same_filled_pages", 0444,
> --
> 2.44.0
>
