linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2] mm/zswap: optimize for dynamic zswap

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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2024 13:57:03 +0000
From: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>,
 Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] mm/zswap: optimize for dynamic zswap_pools

Dynamic pool creation has been supported for a long time, which maybe
not used so much in practice. But with the per-memcg lru merged, the
current structure of zswap_pool's lru and shrinker become less optimal.

In the current structure, each zswap_pool has its own lru, shrinker and
shrink_work, but only the latest zswap_pool will be the current used.

1. When memory has pressure, all shrinkers of zswap_pools will try to
   shrink its lru list, there is no order between them.

2. When zswap limit hit, only the last zswap_pool's shrink_work will
   try to shrink its own lru, which is inefficient.

A more natural way is to have a global zswap lru shared between all
zswap_pools, and so is the shrinker. The code becomes much simpler too.

Another optimization is changing zswap_pool kref to percpu_ref, which
will be taken reference by every zswap entry. So the scalability is
better.

Testing kernel build in tmpfs with memory.max=2GB (zswap shrinker and
writeback enabled with one 50GB swapfile).

        mm-unstable  zswap-global-lru
real    63.20        63.12
user    1061.75      1062.95
sys     268.74       264.44

Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>
---
Chengming Zhou (2):
      mm/zswap: global lru and shrinker shared by all zswap_pools
      mm/zswap: change zswap_pool kref to percpu_ref

 mm/zswap.c | 183 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 76 insertions(+), 107 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 191d97734e41a5c9f90a2f6636fdd335ae1d435d
change-id: 20240210-zswap-global-lru-94d49316178b

Best regards,
-- 
Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>