linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] zsmalloc: Consolidate zs_pool's migrate_lock and size

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Message-ID: <Y2SN5tMH8CqYHsYK@google.com>
Date:   Fri, 4 Nov 2022 12:58:30 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
To:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:     Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        ngupta@...are.org, sjenning@...hat.com, ddstreet@...e.org,
        vitaly.wool@...sulko.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] zsmalloc: Consolidate zs_pool's migrate_lock and
 size_class's locks

On (22/11/03 11:18), Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > > I'm not in love with this, to be honest. One big pool lock instead
> > > of 255 per-class locks doesn't look attractive, as one big pool lock
> > > is going to be hammered quite a lot when zram is used, e.g. as a regular
> > > block device with a file system and is under heavy parallel writes/reads.
> 
> TBH the class always struck me as an odd scope to split the lock. Lock
> contention depends on how variable the compression rate is of the
> hottest incoming data, which is unpredictable from a user POV.
> 
> My understanding is that the primary usecase for zram is swapping, and
> the pool lock is the same granularity as the swap locking.

That's what we thought until a couple of merge windows ago we figured
(the hard way) that SUSE uses ZRAM as a normal block device with a real
file-system on it. And they use it often enough to immediately spot the
regression which we landed.

> Do you have a particular one in mind? (I'm thinking journaled ones are
> not of much interest, since their IO tends to be fairly serialized.)
> 
> btrfs?

Probably some parallel fio workloads? Seq, random reads/writes from
numerous workers.

I personally sometimes use ZRAM when I want to compile something and
I care only about the package, I don't need .o for recomplilation or
something, just the final package.