linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] erofs: relaxed temporary buffers allocation on readahead

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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2024 09:49:48 +0800
From: Yue Hu <zbestahu@...il.com>
To: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc: linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 Chunhai Guo <guochunhai@...o.com>, Gao Xiang <xiang@...nel.org>,
 huyue2@...lpad.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] erofs: relaxed temporary buffers allocation on
 readahead

On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 22:01:42 +0800
Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:

> From: Chunhai Guo <guochunhai@...o.com>
> 
> Even with inplace decompression, sometimes very few temporary buffers
> may be still needed for a single decompression shot (e.g. 16 pages for
> 64k sliding window or 4 pages for 16k sliding window).  In low-memory
> scenarios, it would be better to try to allocate with GFP_NOWAIT on
> readahead first.  That can help reduce the time spent on page allocation
> under durative memory pressure.
> 
> Here are detailed performance numbers under multi-app launch benchmark
> workload [1] on ARM64 Android devices (8-core CPU and 8GB of memory)
> running a 5.15 LTS kernel with EROFS of 4k pclusters:
> 
> +----------------------------------------------+
> |      LZ4       | vanilla | patched |  diff   |
> |----------------+---------+---------+---------|
> |  Average (ms)  |  3364   |  2684   | -20.21% | [64k sliding window]
> |----------------+---------+---------+---------|
> |  Average (ms)  |  2079   |  1610   | -22.56% | [16k sliding window]
> +----------------------------------------------+
> 
> The total size of system images for 4k pclusters is almost unchanged:
> (64k sliding window)  9,117,044 KB
> (16k sliding window)  9,113,096 KB
> 
> Therefore, in addition to switch the sliding window from 64k to 16k,
> after applying this patch, it can eventually save 52.14% (3364 -> 1610)
> on average with no memory reservation.  That is particularly useful for
> embedded devices with limited resources.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240109074143.4138783-1-guochunhai@vivo.com
> 
> Suggested-by: Gao Xiang <xiang@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Chunhai Guo <guochunhai@...o.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com>

Reviewed-by: Yue Hu <huyue2@...lpad.com>