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Writeback suffers from the same problem as recompression did before - target slot selection for writeback is just a simple iteration over zram->table entries (stored pages) which selects suboptimal targets for writeback. This is especially problematic for writeback, because we uncompress objects before writeback so each of them takes 4K out of limited writeback storage. For example, when we take a 48 bytes slot and store it as a 4K object to writeback device we only save 48 bytes of memory (release from zsmalloc pool). We naturally want to pick the largest objects for writeback, because then each writeback will release the largest amount of memory. This patch applies the same solution and strategy as for recompression target selection: pp control (post-process) with 16 buckets of candidate pp slots. Slots are assigned to pp buckets based on sizes - the larger the slot the higher the group index. This gives us sorted by size lists of candidate slots (in linear time), so that among post-processing candidate slots we always select the largest ones first and maximize the memory saving. TEST ==== A very simple demonstration: zram is configured with a writeback device. A limited writeback (wb_limit 2500 pages) is performed then, with a log of sizes of slots that were written back. You can see that patched zram selects slots for recompression in significantly different manner, which leads to higher memory savings (see column #2 of mm_stat output). BASE ---- *** initial state of zram device /sys/block/zram0/mm_stat 1750327296 619765836 631902208 0 631902208 1 0 34278 34278 *** writeback idle wb_limit 2500 /sys/block/zram0/mm_stat 1750327296 617622333 631578624 0 631902208 1 0 34278 34278 Sizes of selected objects for writeback: ... 193 349 46 46 46 46 852 1002 543 162 107 49 34 34 34 ... PATCHED ------- *** initial state of zram device /sys/block/zram0/mm_stat 1750319104 619760957 631992320 0 631992320 1 0 34278 34278 *** writeback idle wb_limit 2500 /sys/block/zram0/mm_stat 1750319104 612672056 626135040 0 631992320 1 0 34278 34278 Sizes of selected objects for writeback: ... 3667 3580 3581 3580 3581 3581 3581 3231 3211 3203 3231 3246 ... Note, pp-slots are not strictly sorted, there is a PP_BUCKET_SIZE_RANGE variation of sizes within particular bucket. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240917021020.883356-5-senozhatsky@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.