linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7] crypto: scompress: remove memcpy if sg

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Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 19:26:02 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, chrisl@...nel.org, sjenning@...hat.com,
	vitaly.wool@...sulko.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Barry Song <v-songbaohua@...o.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>,
	Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>,
	Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] crypto: scompress: remove memcpy if sg_nents is 1 and
 pages are lowmem

On Sat, Mar 02, 2024 at 08:27:45AM +1300, Barry Song wrote:
> From: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@...o.com>
> 
> while sg_nents is 1, which is always true for the current kernel
> as the only user - zswap is this case, we might have a chance to
> remove memcpy, thus improve the performance.
> Though sg_nents is 1, its buffer might cross two pages. If those
> pages are highmem, we have no cheap way to map them to contiguous
> virtual address because kmap doesn't support more than one page
> (kmap single higmem page could be still expensive for tlb) and
> vmap is expensive.
> So we also test and enure page is not highmem in order to safely
> use page_to_virt before removing the memcpy. The good news is
> that in the most majority of cases, we are lowmem, and we are
> always lowmem in those modern and popular hardware.
> 
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>
> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@...o.com>
> Tested-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>
> ---
>  -v7:
>  * fix the problem pointed out by Herbert - flush all pages if dst
>    is longer than one page.
> 
>  crypto/scompress.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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