The patch titled
Subject: zram: rework recompress target selection strategy
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
zram-rework-recompress-target-selection-strategy.patch
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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: zram: rework recompress target selection strategy
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:09:08 +0900
Target slot selection for recompression is just a simple iteration over
zram->table entries (stored pages) from slot 0 to max slot. Given that
zram->table slots are written in random order and are not sorted by size,
a simple iteration over slots selects suboptimal targets for
recompression. This is not a problem if we recompress every single
zram->table slot, but we never do that in reality. In reality we limit
the number of slots we can recompress (via max_pages parameter) and hence
proper slot selection becomes very important. The strategy is quite
simple, suppose we have two candidate slots for recompression, one of size
48 bytes and one of size 2800 bytes, and we can recompress only one, then
it certainly makes more sense to pick 2800 entry for recompression.
Because even if we manage to compress 48 bytes objects even further the
savings are going to be very small. Potential savings after good
re-compression of 2800 bytes objects are much higher.
This patch reworks slot selection and introduces the strategy described
above: among candidate slots always select the biggest ones first.
For that the patch introduces zram_pp_ctl (post-processing) structure
which holds NUM_PP_BUCKETS pp buckets of slots. Slots are assigned to a
particular group based on their sizes - the larger the size of the slot
the higher the group index. This, basically, sorts slots by size in liner
time (we still perform just one iteration over zram->table slots). When
we select slot for recompression we always first lookup in higher pp
buckets (those that hold the largest slots). Which achieves the desired
behavior.
TEST
====
A very simple demonstration: zram is configured with zstd, and zstd with
dict as a recompression stream. A limited (max 4096 pages) recompression
is performed then, with a log of sizes of slots that were recompressed.
You can see that patched zram selects slots for recompression in
significantly different manner, which leads to higher memory savings (see
column #2 of mm_stat output).
BASE
----
*** initial state of zram device
/sys/block/zram0/mm_stat
1750994944 504491413 514203648 0 514203648 1 0 34204 34204
*** recompress idle max_pages=4096
/sys/block/zram0/mm_stat
1750994944 504262229 514953216 0 514203648 1 0 34204 34204
Sizes of selected objects for recompression:
... 45 58 24 226 91 40 24 24 24 424 2104 93 2078 2078 2078 959 154 ...
PATCHED
-------
*** initial state of zram device
/sys/block/zram0/mm_stat
1750982656 504492801 514170880 0 514170880 1 0 34204 34204
*** recompress idle max_pages=4096
/sys/block/zram0/mm_stat
1750982656 503716710 517586944 0 514170880 1 0 34204 34204
Sizes of selected objects for recompression:
... 3680 3694 3667 3590 3614 3553 3537 3548 3550 3542 3543 3537 ...
Note, pp-slots are not strictly sorted, there is a PP_BUCKET_SIZE_RANGE
variation of sizes within particular bucket.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240917021020.883356-4-senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 187 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 160 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c~zram-rework-recompress-target-selection-strategy
+++ a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -184,6 +184,99 @@ static void zram_accessed(struct zram *z
#endif
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_ZRAM_MULTI_COMP
+struct zram_pp_slot {
+ unsigned long index;
+ struct list_head entry;
+};
+
+/*
+ * A post-processing bucket is, essentially, a size class, this defines
+ * the range (in bytes) of pp-slots sizes in particular bucket.
+ */
+#define PP_BUCKET_SIZE_RANGE 64
+#define NUM_PP_BUCKETS ((PAGE_SIZE / PP_BUCKET_SIZE_RANGE) + 1)
+
+struct zram_pp_ctl {
+ struct list_head pp_buckets[NUM_PP_BUCKETS];
+};
+
+static struct zram_pp_ctl *init_pp_ctl(void)
+{
+ struct zram_pp_ctl *ctl;
+ u32 idx;
+
+ ctl = kmalloc(sizeof(*ctl), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!ctl)
+ return NULL;
+
+ for (idx = 0; idx < NUM_PP_BUCKETS; idx++)
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ctl->pp_buckets[idx]);
+ return ctl;
+}
+
+static void release_pp_slot(struct zram *zram, struct zram_pp_slot *pps)
+{
+ list_del_init(&pps->entry);
+
+ zram_slot_lock(zram, pps->index);
+ zram_clear_flag(zram, pps->index, ZRAM_PP_SLOT);
+ zram_slot_unlock(zram, pps->index);
+
+ kfree(pps);
+}
+
+static void release_pp_ctl(struct zram *zram, struct zram_pp_ctl *ctl)
+{
+ u32 idx;
+
+ if (!ctl)
+ return;
+
+ for (idx = 0; idx < NUM_PP_BUCKETS; idx++) {
+ while (!list_empty(&ctl->pp_buckets[idx])) {
+ struct zram_pp_slot *pps;
+
+ pps = list_first_entry(&ctl->pp_buckets[idx],
+ struct zram_pp_slot,
+ entry);
+ release_pp_slot(zram, pps);
+ }
+ }
+
+ kfree(ctl);
+}
+
+static void place_pp_slot(struct zram *zram, struct zram_pp_ctl *ctl,
+ struct zram_pp_slot *pps)
+{
+ u32 idx;
+
+ idx = zram_get_obj_size(zram, pps->index) / PP_BUCKET_SIZE_RANGE;
+ list_add(&pps->entry, &ctl->pp_buckets[idx]);
+
+ zram_set_flag(zram, pps->index, ZRAM_PP_SLOT);
+}
+
+static struct zram_pp_slot *select_pp_slot(struct zram_pp_ctl *ctl)
+{
+ struct zram_pp_slot *pps = NULL;
+ s32 idx = NUM_PP_BUCKETS - 1;
+
+ /* The higher the bucket id the more optimal slot post-processing is */
+ while (idx > 0) {
+ pps = list_first_entry_or_null(&ctl->pp_buckets[idx],
+ struct zram_pp_slot,
+ entry);
+ if (pps)
+ break;
+
+ idx--;
+ }
+ return pps;
+}
+#endif
+
static inline void update_used_max(struct zram *zram,
const unsigned long pages)
{
@@ -1657,6 +1750,52 @@ static int zram_bvec_write(struct zram *
}
#ifdef CONFIG_ZRAM_MULTI_COMP
+#define RECOMPRESS_IDLE (1 << 0)
+#define RECOMPRESS_HUGE (1 << 1)
+
+static int scan_slots_for_recompress(struct zram *zram, u32 mode,
+ struct zram_pp_ctl *ctl)
+{
+ unsigned long nr_pages = zram->disksize >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ struct zram_pp_slot *pps = NULL;
+ unsigned long index;
+
+ for (index = 0; index < nr_pages; index++) {
+ if (!pps)
+ pps = kmalloc(sizeof(*pps), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!pps)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pps->entry);
+
+ zram_slot_lock(zram, index);
+ if (!zram_allocated(zram, index))
+ goto next;
+
+ if (mode & RECOMPRESS_IDLE &&
+ !zram_test_flag(zram, index, ZRAM_IDLE))
+ goto next;
+
+ if (mode & RECOMPRESS_HUGE &&
+ !zram_test_flag(zram, index, ZRAM_HUGE))
+ goto next;
+
+ if (zram_test_flag(zram, index, ZRAM_WB) ||
+ zram_test_flag(zram, index, ZRAM_SAME) ||
+ zram_test_flag(zram, index, ZRAM_INCOMPRESSIBLE))
+ goto next;
+
+ pps->index = index;
+ place_pp_slot(zram, ctl, pps);
+ pps = NULL;
+next:
+ zram_slot_unlock(zram, index);
+ }
+
+ kfree(pps);
+ return 0;
+}
+
/*
* This function will decompress (unless it's ZRAM_HUGE) the page and then
* attempt to compress it using provided compression algorithm priority
@@ -1664,7 +1803,7 @@ static int zram_bvec_write(struct zram *
*
* Corresponding ZRAM slot should be locked.
*/
-static int zram_recompress(struct zram *zram, u32 index, struct page *page,
+static int recompress_slot(struct zram *zram, u32 index, struct page *page,
u64 *num_recomp_pages, u32 threshold, u32 prio,
u32 prio_max)
{
@@ -1807,20 +1946,17 @@ static int zram_recompress(struct zram *
return 0;
}
-#define RECOMPRESS_IDLE (1 << 0)
-#define RECOMPRESS_HUGE (1 << 1)
-
static ssize_t recompress_store(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr,
const char *buf, size_t len)
{
u32 prio = ZRAM_SECONDARY_COMP, prio_max = ZRAM_MAX_COMPS;
struct zram *zram = dev_to_zram(dev);
- unsigned long nr_pages = zram->disksize >> PAGE_SHIFT;
char *args, *param, *val, *algo = NULL;
u64 num_recomp_pages = ULLONG_MAX;
+ struct zram_pp_ctl *ctl = NULL;
+ struct zram_pp_slot *pps;
u32 mode = 0, threshold = 0;
- unsigned long index;
struct page *page;
ssize_t ret;
@@ -1922,36 +2058,32 @@ static ssize_t recompress_store(struct d
goto release_init_lock;
}
+ ctl = init_pp_ctl();
+ if (!ctl) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto release_init_lock;
+ }
+
+ scan_slots_for_recompress(zram, mode, ctl);
+
ret = len;
- for (index = 0; index < nr_pages; index++) {
+ while ((pps = select_pp_slot(ctl))) {
int err = 0;
if (!num_recomp_pages)
break;
- zram_slot_lock(zram, index);
-
- if (!zram_allocated(zram, index))
- goto next;
-
- if (mode & RECOMPRESS_IDLE &&
- !zram_test_flag(zram, index, ZRAM_IDLE))
+ zram_slot_lock(zram, pps->index);
+ if (!zram_test_flag(zram, pps->index, ZRAM_PP_SLOT))
goto next;
- if (mode & RECOMPRESS_HUGE &&
- !zram_test_flag(zram, index, ZRAM_HUGE))
- goto next;
-
- if (zram_test_flag(zram, index, ZRAM_WB) ||
- zram_test_flag(zram, index, ZRAM_UNDER_WB) ||
- zram_test_flag(zram, index, ZRAM_SAME) ||
- zram_test_flag(zram, index, ZRAM_INCOMPRESSIBLE))
- goto next;
-
- err = zram_recompress(zram, index, page, &num_recomp_pages,
- threshold, prio, prio_max);
+ err = recompress_slot(zram, pps->index, page,
+ &num_recomp_pages, threshold,
+ prio, prio_max);
next:
- zram_slot_unlock(zram, index);
+ zram_slot_unlock(zram, pps->index);
+ release_pp_slot(zram, pps);
+
if (err) {
ret = err;
break;
@@ -1963,6 +2095,7 @@ next:
__free_page(page);
release_init_lock:
+ release_pp_ctl(zram, ctl);
atomic_set(&zram->pp_in_progress, 0);
up_read(&zram->init_lock);
return ret;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
zram-introduce-zram_pp_slot-flag.patch
zram-permit-only-one-post-processing-operation-at-a-time.patch
zram-rework-recompress-target-selection-strategy.patch
zram-rework-writeback-target-selection-strategy.patch
zram-do-not-mark-idle-slots-that-cannot-be-idle.patch
zram-reshuffle-zram_free_page-flags-operations.patch
zram-remove-under_wb-and-simplify-writeback.patch
