The patch titled Subject: zram: free slot memory early during write has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is zram-free-slot-memory-early-during-write.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/zram-free-slot-memory-early-during-write.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: zram: free slot memory early during write Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 19:53:56 +0900 In the current implementation entry's previously allocated memory is released in the very last moment, when we already have allocated a new memory for new data. This, basically, temporarily increases memory usage for no good reason. For example, consider the case when both old (stale) and new entry data are incompressible so such entry will temporarily use two physical pages - one for stale (old) data and one for new data. We can release old memory as soon as we get a write request for entry. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241210105420.1888790-3-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 | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c~zram-free-slot-memory-early-during-write +++ a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c @@ -1651,6 +1651,11 @@ static int zram_write_page(struct zram * unsigned long element = 0; enum zram_pageflags flags = 0; + /* First, free memory allocated to this slot (if any) */ + zram_slot_lock(zram, index); + zram_free_page(zram, index); + zram_slot_unlock(zram, index); + mem = kmap_local_page(page); if (page_same_filled(mem, &element)) { kunmap_local(mem); @@ -1746,13 +1751,7 @@ compress_again: zs_unmap_object(zram->mem_pool, handle); atomic64_add(comp_len, &zram->stats.compr_data_size); out: - /* - * Free memory associated with this sector - * before overwriting unused sectors. - */ zram_slot_lock(zram, index); - zram_free_page(zram, index); - if (comp_len == PAGE_SIZE) { zram_set_flag(zram, index, ZRAM_HUGE); atomic64_inc(&zram->stats.huge_pages); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx are zram-panic-when-use-ext4-over-zram-fix.patch zram-cond_resched-in-writeback-loop.patch zram-free-slot-memory-early-during-write.patch zram-remove-entry-element-member.patch zram-factor-out-zram_same-write.patch zram-factor-out-zram_huge-write.patch zram-factor-out-different-page-types-read.patch