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Message-ID: <20140822061805.GI17372@bbox>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:18:05 +0900
From: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Cc: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@...sung.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-mm@...ck.org, ngupta@...are.org,
'Jerome Marchand' <jmarchan@...hat.com>,
'Andrew Morton' <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zram: add num_discards for discarded pages stat
Hi Sergey,
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:05:04PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (08/21/14 17:09), Chao Yu wrote:
> [cut]
> > >
> > > I hope I'm not discouraging. :)
> >
> > Nope, please let me try again, :)
> >
> > Since we have supported handling discard request in this commit
> > f4659d8e620d08bd1a84a8aec5d2f5294a242764 (zram: support REQ_DISCARD), zram got
> > one more chance to free unused memory whenever received discard request. But
> > without stating for discard request, there is no method for user to know whether
> > discard request has been handled by zram or how many blocks were discarded by
> > zram when user wants to know the effect of discard.
> >
> > In this patch, we add num_discards to stat discarded pages, and export it to
> > sysfs for users.
> >
>
> In other words, here is my proposal:
>
> -----8<-----8<-----
>
> Subject: [PATCH] zram: use notify_free to account all free notifications
>
> notify_free device attribute accounts the number of slot free notifications
> and internally represents the number of zram_free_page() calls. Slot free
> notifications are sent only when device is used as a swap device, hence
> notify_free is used only for swap devices. Since f4659d8e620d08 (zram:
> support REQ_DISCARD) ZRAM handles yet another one free notification (also
> via zram_free_page() call) -- REQ_DISCARD requests, which are sent by a
> filesystem, whenever some data blocks are discarded. However, there is no
> way to know the number of notifications in the latter case.
>
> Use notify_free to account the number of pages freed in zram_free_page(),
> instead of accounting only swap_slot_free_notify() calls (each
> zram_slot_free_notify() call frees one page).
>
> This means that depending on usage scenario notify_free represents:
> a) the number of pages freed because of slot free notifications, which is
> equal to the number of swap_slot_free_notify() calls, so there is no
> behaviour change
>
> b) the number of pages freed because of REQ_DISCARD notifications
IMO, it would be better to separate it because zram-swap does both
free notify and discard but trigger timing is different so we could
measure which one is better if we want to replace swap_slot_free_notify
with discard. So I'd like to keep both and then we could remove
notify_free later once we prove discard alone is enough.
What do you think about it?
>
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
> ---
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram | 13 ++++++++-----
> drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram
> index 70ec992..73ed400 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram
> @@ -77,11 +77,14 @@ What: /sys/block/zram<id>/notify_free
> Date: August 2010
> Contact: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>
> Description:
> - The notify_free file is read-only and specifies the number of
> - swap slot free notifications received by this device. These
> - notifications are sent to a swap block device when a swap slot
> - is freed. This statistic is applicable only when this disk is
> - being used as a swap disk.
> + The notify_free file is read-only. Depending on device usage
> + scenario it may account a) the number of swap slot free
> + notifications or b) the number of REQ_DISCARD requests sent
> + by bio. The former ones are sent to a swap block device when a
> + swap slot is freed, which implies that this disk is being used
> + as a swap disk. The latter ones are sent by filesystem mounted
> + with discard option, whenever some data blocks are getting
> + discarded.
>
> What: /sys/block/zram<id>/zero_pages
> Date: August 2010
> diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> index d00831c..c2e7127 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> @@ -344,6 +344,7 @@ static void zram_free_page(struct zram *zram, size_t index)
> atomic64_sub(zram_get_obj_size(meta, index),
> &zram->stats.compr_data_size);
> atomic64_dec(&zram->stats.pages_stored);
> + atomic64_inc(&zram->stats.notify_free);
>
> meta->table[index].handle = 0;
> zram_set_obj_size(meta, index, 0);
> @@ -843,7 +844,6 @@ static void zram_slot_free_notify(struct block_device *bdev,
> bit_spin_lock(ZRAM_ACCESS, &meta->table[index].value);
> zram_free_page(zram, index);
> bit_spin_unlock(ZRAM_ACCESS, &meta->table[index].value);
> - atomic64_inc(&zram->stats.notify_free);
> }
>
> static const struct block_device_operations zram_devops = {
> --
> 2.1.0.233.g9eef2c8
>
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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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