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Date:	Thu, 6 Mar 2014 14:27:29 +0300
From:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv9 0/7] add compressing abstraction and multi stream
 support

Hello Minchan,

On (03/06/14 17:11), Minchan Kim wrote:
> Hello Sergey,
> 
> Sorry for the late.
> 
> Today, I tested this patch and confirm that it's really good.
> I send result for the record.
> 
> In x86(4core and x2 hyper threading, i7, 2.8GHz), I did parallel 4 dd
> test with 200m file like below
> 
> dd if=./test200m.file of=mnt/file1 bs=512k count=1024 oflag=direct &
> dd if=./test200m.file of=mnt/file2 bs=512k count=1024 oflag=direct &
> dd if=./test200m.file of=mnt/file3 bs=512k count=1024 oflag=direct &
> dd if=./test200m.file of=mnt/file4 bs=512k count=1024 oflag=direct &
> wait all backgroud job
> 
> The result is 
> 
> When 1 max_comp_streams, elapsed time is 36.26s
> When 8 max_comp_streams, elapsed time is 4.09s
> 
> In ARM(4core, ARMv7, 1.5GHz), I did iozone test.
> 

many thanks, Minchan! I really appreciate all your help and time that you
spent helping me out with this patchset. good job!



p.s. I noticed that for the last two days (and still) fetchmail works
extremly bad with gmail. sorry if I lost someone's email or replied late.

	-ss

>       1 max_comp_streams,      8 max_comp_streams
> ==Initial  write      ==Initial  write
> records:   10         records:   10
> avg:       141964.05  avg:       239632.54
> std:       3532.11    (2.49%)    std:       43863.53  (18.30%)
> max:       147900.45  max:       319046.62
> min:       135363.73  min:       178929.40
> ==Rewrite  ==Rewrite
> records:   10         records:   10
> avg:       144757.46  avg:       247410.80
> std:       4019.19    (2.78%)    std:       37378.42  (15.11%)
> max:       150757.72  max:       293284.84
> min:       135127.55  min:       188984.27
> ==Read     ==Read
> records:   10         records:   10
> avg:       208325.22  avg:       202894.24
> std:       57072.62   (27.40%)   std:       41099.56  (20.26%)
> max:       293428.96  max:       289581.12
> min:       79445.37   min:       157478.27
> ==Re-read  ==Re-read
> records:   10         records:   10
> avg:       204750.36  avg:       237406.96
> std:       36959.99   (18.05%)   std:       41518.36  (17.49%)
> max:       268399.89  max:       286898.13
> min:       154831.28  min:       160326.88
> ==Reverse  Read       ==Reverse  Read
> records:   10         records:   10
> avg:       215043.10  avg:       208946.35
> std:       31239.60   (14.53%)   std:       38859.74  (18.60%)
> max:       251564.57  max:       284481.31
> min:       154719.20  min:       155024.33
> ==Stride   read       ==Stride   read
> records:   10         records:   10
> avg:       227246.54  avg:       198925.10
> std:       31105.89   (13.69%)   std:       30721.86  (15.44%)
> max:       290020.34  max:       227178.70
> min:       157399.46  min:       153592.91
> ==Random   read       ==Random   read
> records:   10         records:   10
> avg:       238239.81  avg:       216298.41
> std:       37276.91   (15.65%)   std:       38194.73  (17.66%)
> max:       291416.20  max:       286345.37
> min:       152734.23  min:       151871.52
> ==Mixed    workload   ==Mixed    workload
> records:   10         records:   10
> avg:       208434.11  avg:       234355.66
> std:       31385.40   (15.06%)   std:       22064.02  (9.41%)
> max:       253990.11  max:       270412.58
> min:       162041.47  min:       186052.12
> ==Random   write      ==Random   write
> records:   10         records:   10
> avg:       142172.54  avg:       290231.28
> std:       6233.67    (4.38%)    std:       46462.35  (16.01%)
> max:       150652.40  max:       338096.54
> min:       130584.14  min:       183253.25
> ==Pwrite   ==Pwrite
> records:   10         records:   10
> avg:       141247.91  avg:       267085.70
> std:       6756.08    (4.78%)    std:       40019.39  (14.98%)
> max:       150239.13  max:       335512.33
> min:       130456.98  min:       180832.45
> ==Pread    ==Pread
> records:   10         records:   10
> avg:       214990.26  avg:       208730.94
> std:       40701.79   (18.93%)   std:       50797.78  (24.34%)
> max:       287060.54  max:       300675.25
> min:       157642.17  min:       156763.98
> 
> So, all write test both x86 and ARM is really huge win
> and I couldn't find any regression!
> 
> Thanks for nice work.
> 
> For all patchset,
> 
> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
> 
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 08:52:00PM +0300, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > This patchset introduces zcomp compression backend abstraction
> > adding ability to support compression algorithms other than LZO;
> > support for multi compression streams, making parallel compressions
> > possible; adds support for LZ4 compression algorithm.
> > 
> > v8->v9 (reviewed by Andrew Morton):
> > -- add LZ4 backend (+iozone test vs LZO)
> > -- merge patches 'zram: document max_comp_streams' and 'zram: add multi
> >    stream functionality'
> > -- do not extern backend struct from source file
> > -- use find()/release() naming instead of get()/put()
> > -- minor code, commit messages and code comments `nitpicks'
> > -- removed Acked-by Minchan Kim from first two patches, because I've
> >    changed them a bit.
> > 
> > v7->v8 (reviewed by Minchan Kim):
> > -- merge patches 'add multi stream functionality' and 'enable multi
> >    stream compression support in zram'
> > -- return status code from set_max_streams knob and print message on
> >    error
> > -- do not use atomic type for ->avail_strm
> > -- return back: allocate by default only one stream for multi stream backend
> > -- wake sleeping write in zcomp_strm_multi_put() only if we put stream
> >    to idle list
> > -- minor code `nitpicks'
> > 
> > v6->v7 (reviewed by Minchan Kim):
> > -- enable multi and single stream support out of the box (drop
> >    ZRAM_MULTI_STREAM config option)
> > -- add set_max_stream knob, so we can adjust max number of compression
> >    streams in runtime (for multi stream backend at the moment)
> > -- minor code `nitpicks'
> > 
> > v5->v6 (reviewed by Minchan Kim):
> > -- handle single compression stream case separately, using mutex locking,
> >    to address perfomance regression
> > -- handle multi compression stream using spin lock and wait_event()/wake_up()
> > -- make multi compression stream support configurable (ZRAM_MULTI_STREAM
> >    config option)
> > 
> > v4->v5 (reviewed by Minchan Kim):
> > -- renamed zcomp buffer_lock; removed src len and dst len from
> >    compress() and decompress(); not using term `buffer' and
> >    `workmem' in code and documentation; define compress() and
> >    decompress() functions for LZO backend; not using goto's;
> >    do not put idle zcomp_strm to idle list tail.
> > 
> > v3->v4 (reviewed by Minchan Kim):
> > -- renamed compression backend and working memory structs as requested
> >    by Minchan Kim; fixed several issues noted by Minchan Kim.
> > 
> > Sergey Senozhatsky (7):
> >   zram: introduce compressing backend abstraction
> >   zram: use zcomp compressing backends
> >   zram: factor out single stream compression
> >   zram: add multi stream functionality
> >   zram: add set_max_streams knob
> >   zram: make compression algorithm selection possible
> >   zram: add lz4 algorithm backend
> > 
> >  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram |  17 +-
> >  Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt            |  45 +++-
> >  drivers/block/zram/Kconfig                 |  10 +
> >  drivers/block/zram/Makefile                |   4 +-
> >  drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c                 | 349 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  drivers/block/zram/zcomp.h                 |  68 ++++++
> >  drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lz4.c             |  47 ++++
> >  drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lz4.h             |  17 ++
> >  drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lzo.c             |  47 ++++
> >  drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lzo.h             |  17 ++
> >  drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c              | 131 ++++++++---
> >  drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h              |  11 +-
> >  12 files changed, 715 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/block/zram/zcomp.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lz4.c
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lz4.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lzo.c
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/block/zram/zcomp_lzo.h
> > 
> > -- 
> > 1.9.0.359.g5e34a15
> > 
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> -- 
> Kind regards,
> Minchan Kim
> 
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