When the proportion of folios from the zeromap is small, missing their
accounting may not significantly impact profiling. However, it's easy to
construct a scenario where this becomes an issue—for example, allocating
1 GB of memory, writing zeros from userspace, followed by MADV_PAGEOUT,
and then swapping it back in. In this case, the swap-out and swap-in
counts seem to vanish into a black hole, potentially causing semantic
ambiguity.
On the other hand, Usama reported that zero-filled pages can exceed 10% in
workloads utilizing zswap, while Hailong noted that some app in Android
have more than 6% zero-filled pages. Before commit 0ca0c24e32 ("mm:
store zero pages to be swapped out in a bitmap"), both zswap and zRAM
implemented similar optimizations, leading to these optimized-out pages
being counted in either zswap or zRAM counters (with pswpin/pswpout also
increasing for zRAM). With zeromap functioning prior to both zswap and
zRAM, userspace will no longer detect these swap-out and swap-in actions.
We have three ways to address this:
1. Introduce a dedicated counter specifically for the zeromap.
2. Use pswpin/pswpout accounting, treating the zero map as a standard
backend. This approach aligns with zRAM's current handling of
same-page fills at the device level. However, it would mean losing the
optimized-out page counters previously available in zRAM and would not
align with systems using zswap. Additionally, as noted by Nhat Pham,
pswpin/pswpout counters apply only to I/O done directly to the backend
device.
3. Count zeromap pages under zswap, aligning with system behavior when
zswap is enabled. However, this would not be consistent with zRAM, nor
would it align with systems lacking both zswap and zRAM.
Given the complications with options 2 and 3, this patch selects
option 1.
We can find these counters from /proc/vmstat (counters for the whole
system) and memcg's memory.stat (counters for the interested memcg).
For example:
$ grep -E 'swpin_zero|swpout_zero' /proc/vmstat
swpin_zero 1648
swpout_zero 33536
$ grep -E 'swpin_zero|swpout_zero' /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/memory.stat
swpin_zero 3905
swpout_zero 3985
This patch does not address any specific zeromap bug, but the missing
swpout and swpin counts for zero-filled pages can be highly confusing and
may mislead user-space agents that rely on changes in these counters as
indicators. Therefore, we add a Fixes tag to encourage the inclusion of
this counter in any kernel versions with zeromap.
Many thanks to Kanchana for the contribution of changing
count_objcg_event() to count_objcg_events() to support large folios[1],
which has now been incorporated into this patch.
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241001053222.6944-5-kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241107011246.59137-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Fixes: 0ca0c24e32 ("mm: store zero pages to be swapped out in a bitmap")
Co-developed-by: Kanchana P Sridhar <kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Hailong Liu <hailong.liu@oppo.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Made a minor edit in the comments for 'struct zswap_entry' to delete the
description of the 'value' member that was deleted in commit 20a5532ffa
("mm: remove code to handle same filled pages").
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241002194213.30041-1-kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kanchana P Sridhar <kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com>
Fixes: 20a5532ffa ("mm: remove code to handle same filled pages")
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kanchana P Sridhar <kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Wajdi Feghali <wajdi.k.feghali@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
With an earlier commit to handle zero-filled pages in swap directly, and
with only 1% of the same-filled pages being non-zero, zswap no longer
needs to handle same-filled pages and can just work on compressed pages.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240823190545.979059-3-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "improving dynamic zswap shrinker protection scheme", v3.
When experimenting with the memory-pressure based (i.e "dynamic") zswap
shrinker in production, we observed a sharp increase in the number of
swapins, which led to performance regression. We were able to trace this
regression to the following problems with the shrinker's warm pages
protection scheme:
1. The protection decays way too rapidly, and the decaying is coupled with
zswap stores, leading to anomalous patterns, in which a small batch of
zswap stores effectively erase all the protection in place for the
warmer pages in the zswap LRU.
This observation has also been corroborated upstream by Takero Funaki
(in [1]).
2. We inaccurately track the number of swapped in pages, missing the
non-pivot pages that are part of the readahead window, while counting
the pages that are found in the zswap pool.
To alleviate these two issues, this patch series improve the dynamic zswap
shrinker in the following manner:
1. Replace the protection size tracking scheme with a second chance
algorithm. This new scheme removes the need for haphazard stats
decaying, and automatically adjusts the pace of pages aging with memory
pressure, and writeback rate with pool activities: slowing down when
the pool is dominated with zswpouts, and speeding up when the pool is
dominated with stale entries.
2. Fix the tracking of the number of swapins to take into account
non-pivot pages in the readahead window.
With these two changes in place, in a kernel-building benchmark without
any cold data added, the number of swapins is reduced by 64.12%. This
translate to a 10.32% reduction in build time. We also observe a 3%
reduction in kernel CPU time.
In another benchmark, with cold data added (to gauge the new algorithm's
ability to offload cold data), the new second chance scheme outperforms
the old protection scheme by around 0.7%, and actually written back around
21% more pages to backing swap device. So the new scheme is just as good,
if not even better than the old scheme on this front as well.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAPpodddcGsK=0Xczfuk8usgZ47xeyf4ZjiofdT+ujiyz6V2pFQ@mail.gmail.com/
This patch (of 2):
Current zswap shrinker's heuristics to prevent overshrinking is brittle
and inaccurate, specifically in the way we decay the protection size (i.e
making pages in the zswap LRU eligible for reclaim).
We currently decay protection aggressively in zswap_lru_add() calls. This
leads to the following unfortunate effect: when a new batch of pages enter
zswap, the protection size rapidly decays to below 25% of the zswap LRU
size, which is way too low.
We have observed this effect in production, when experimenting with the
zswap shrinker: the rate of shrinking shoots up massively right after a
new batch of zswap stores. This is somewhat the opposite of what we want
originally - when new pages enter zswap, we want to protect both these new
pages AND the pages that are already protected in the zswap LRU.
Replace existing heuristics with a second chance algorithm
1. When a new zswap entry is stored in the zswap pool, its referenced
bit is set.
2. When the zswap shrinker encounters a zswap entry with the referenced
bit set, give it a second chance - only flips the referenced bit and
rotate it in the LRU.
3. If the shrinker encounters the entry again, this time with its
referenced bit unset, then it can reclaim the entry.
In this manner, the aging of the pages in the zswap LRUs are decoupled
from zswap stores, and picks up the pace with increasing memory pressure
(which is what we want).
The second chance scheme allows us to modulate the writeback rate based on
recent pool activities. Entries that recently entered the pool will be
protected, so if the pool is dominated by such entries the writeback rate
will reduce proportionally, protecting the workload's workingset.On the
other hand, stale entries will be written back quickly, which increases
the effective writeback rate.
The referenced bit is added at the hole after the `length` field of struct
zswap_entry, so there is no extra space overhead for this algorithm.
We will still maintain the count of swapins, which is consumed and
subtracted from the lru size in zswap_shrinker_count(), to further
penalize past overshrinking that led to disk swapins. The idea is that
had we considered this many more pages in the LRU active/protected, they
would not have been written back and we would not have had to swapped them
in.
To test this new heuristics, I built the kernel under a cgroup with
memory.max set to 2G, on a host with 36 cores:
With the old shrinker:
real: 263.89s
user: 4318.11s
sys: 673.29s
swapins: 227300.5
With the second chance algorithm:
real: 244.85s
user: 4327.22s
sys: 664.39s
swapins: 94663
(average over 5 runs)
We observe an 1.3% reduction in kernel CPU usage, and around 7.2%
reduction in real time. Note that the number of swapped in pages
dropped by 58%.
[nphamcs@gmail.com: fix a small mistake in the referenced bit documentation]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240806003403.3142387-1-nphamcs@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240805232243.2896283-1-nphamcs@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240805232243.2896283-2-nphamcs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Takero Funaki <flintglass@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This patch fixes the zswap global shrinker, which did not shrink the zpool
as expected.
The issue addressed is that shrink_worker() did not distinguish between
unexpected errors and expected errors, such as failed writeback from an
empty memcg. The shrinker would stop shrinking after iterating through
the memcg tree 16 times, even if there was only one empty memcg.
With this patch, the shrinker no longer considers encountering an empty
memcg, encountering a memcg with writeback disabled, or reaching the end
of a memcg tree walk as a failure, as long as there are memcgs that are
candidates for writeback. Systems with one or more empty memcgs will now
observe significantly higher zswap writeback activity after the zswap pool
limit is hit.
To avoid an infinite loop when there are no writeback candidates, this
patch tracks writeback attempts during memcg tree walks and limits reties
if no writeback candidates are found.
To handle the empty memcg case, the helper function shrink_memcg() is
modified to check if the memcg is empty and then return -ENOENT.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240731004918.33182-3-flintglass@gmail.com
Fixes: a65b0e7607 ("zswap: make shrinking memcg-aware")
Signed-off-by: Takero Funaki <flintglass@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm: zswap: fixes for global shrinker", v5.
This series addresses issues in the zswap global shrinker that could not
shrink stored pages. With this series, the shrinker continues to shrink
pages until it reaches the accept threshold more reliably, gives much
higher writeback when the zswap pool limit is hit.
This patch (of 2):
This patch fixes an issue where the zswap global shrinker stopped
iterating through the memcg tree.
The problem was that shrink_worker() would restart iterating memcg tree
from the tree root, considering an offline memcg as a failure, and abort
shrinking after encountering the same offline memcg 16 times even if there
is only one offline memcg. After this change, an offline memcg in the
tree is no longer considered a failure. This allows the shrinker to
continue shrinking the other online memcgs regardless of whether an
offline memcg exists, gives higher zswap writeback activity.
To avoid holding refcount of offline memcg encountered during the memcg
tree walking, shrink_worker() must continue iterating to release the
offline memcg to ensure the next memcg stored in the cursor is online.
The offline memcg cleaner has also been changed to avoid the same issue.
When the next memcg of the offlined memcg is also offline, the refcount
stored in the iteration cursor was held until the next shrink_worker()
run. The cleaner must release the offline memcg recursively.
[yosryahmed@google.com: make critical section more obvious, unify comments]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAJD7tkaScz+SbB90Q1d5mMD70UfM2a-J2zhXDT9sePR7Qap45Q@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240731004918.33182-1-flintglass@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240731004918.33182-2-flintglass@gmail.com
Fixes: a65b0e7607 ("zswap: make shrinking memcg-aware")
Signed-off-by: Takero Funaki <flintglass@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
We accidentally deleted a tab in commit f84152e9efc5 ("mm/zswap: use only
one pool in zswap"). Add it back.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c15066a0-f061-42c9-b0f5-d60281d3d5d8@stanley.mountain
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Zswap uses 32 pools to workaround the locking scalability problem in zswap
backends (mainly zsmalloc nowadays), which brings its own problems like
memory waste and more memory fragmentation.
Testing results show that we can have near performance with only one pool
in zswap after changing zsmalloc to use per-size_class lock instead of
pool spinlock.
Testing kernel build (make bzImage -j32) on tmpfs with memory.max=1GB, and
zswap shrinker enabled with 10GB swapfile on ext4.
real user sys
6.10.0-rc3 138.18 1241.38 1452.73
6.10.0-rc3-onepool 149.45 1240.45 1844.69
6.10.0-rc3-onepool-perclass 138.23 1242.37 1469.71
And do the same testing using zbud, which shows a little worse performance
as expected since we don't do any locking optimization for zbud. I think
it's acceptable since zsmalloc became a lot more popular than other
backends, and we may want to support only zsmalloc in the future.
real user sys
6.10.0-rc3-zbud 138.23 1239.58 1430.09
6.10.0-rc3-onepool-zbud 139.64 1241.37 1516.59
[chengming.zhou@linux.dev: fix error handling in zswap_pool_create(), per Dan Carpenter]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240621-zsmalloc-lock-mm-everything-v2-2-d30e9cd2b793@linux.dev
[chengming.zhou@linux.dev: fix error handling again in zswap_pool_create(), per Yosry]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240625-zsmalloc-lock-mm-everything-v3-2-ad941699cb61@linux.dev
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240617-zsmalloc-lock-mm-everything-v1-2-5e5081ea11b3@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Zswap does not support storing or loading large folios. Until proper
support is added, attempts to load large folios from zswap are a bug.
For example, if a swapin fault observes that contiguous PTEs are pointing
to contiguous swap entries and tries to swap them in as a large folio,
swap_read_folio() will pass in a large folio to zswap_load(), but
zswap_load() will only effectively load the first page in the folio. If
the first page is not in zswap, the folio will be read from disk, even
though other pages may be in zswap.
In both cases, this will lead to silent data corruption. Proper support
needs to be added before large folio swapins and zswap can work together.
Looking at callers of swap_read_folio(), it seems like they are either
allocated from __read_swap_cache_async() or do_swap_page() in the
SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO path. Both of which allocate order-0 folios, so
everything is fine for now.
However, there is ongoing work to add to support large folio swapins [1].
To make sure new development does not break zswap (or get broken by
zswap), add minimal handling of incorrect loads of large folios to zswap.
First, move the call folio_mark_uptodate() inside zswap_load().
If a large folio load is attempted, and zswap was ever enabled on the
system, return 'true' without calling folio_mark_uptodate(). This will
prevent the folio from being read from disk, and will emit an IO error
because the folio is not uptodate (e.g. do_swap_fault() will return
VM_FAULT_SIGBUS). It may not be reliable recovery in all cases, but it is
better than nothing.
This was tested by hacking the allocation in __read_swap_cache_async() to
use order 2 and __GFP_COMP.
In the future, to handle this correctly, the swapin code should:
(a) Fall back to order-0 swapins if zswap was ever used on the
machine, because compressed pages remain in zswap after it is
disabled.
(b) Add proper support to swapin large folios from zswap (fully or
partially).
Probably start with (a) then followup with (b).
[1]https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20240304081348.197341-6-21cnbao@gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240611024516.1375191-3-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Acked-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Add zswap_never_enabled() to skip the xarray lookup in zswap_load() if
zswap was never enabled on the system. It is implemented using static
branches for efficiency, as enabling zswap should be a rare event. This
could shave some cycles off zswap_load() when CONFIG_ZSWAP is used but
zswap is never enabled.
However, the real motivation behind this patch is two-fold:
- Incoming large folio swapin work will need to fallback to order-0
folios if zswap was ever enabled, because any part of the folio could be
in zswap, until proper handling of large folios with zswap is added.
- A warning and recovery attempt will be added in a following change in
case the above was not done incorrectly. Zswap will fail the read if
the folio is large and it was ever enabled.
Expose zswap_never_enabled() in the header for the swapin work to use
it later.
[yosryahmed@google.com: expose zswap_never_enabled() in the header]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Zmjf0Dr8s9xSW41X@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240611024516.1375191-2-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In preparation for introducing a similar function, rename
is_zswap_enabled() to use zswap_* prefix like other zswap functions.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240611024516.1375191-1-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
A variable name 'page' is used in zswap_is_folio_same_filled() and
zswap_fill_page() to point at the kmapped data in a folio. Use 'data'
instead to avoid confusion and stop it from showing up when searching
for 'page' references in mm/zswap.c.
While we are at it, move the kmap/kunmap calls into zswap_fill_page(),
make it take in a folio, and rename it to zswap_fill_folio().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240524033819.1953587-4-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Eliminate the last explicit 'struct page' reference in mm/zswap.c.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240524033819.1953587-3-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm: zswap: trivial folio conversions".
Some trivial folio conversions in zswap code.
This patch (of 3):
sg_set_folio() is equivalent to sg_set_page() for order-0 folios, which
are the only ones supported by zswap. Now zswap_decompress() can take in
a folio directly.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240524033819.1953587-1-yosryahmed@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240524033819.1953587-2-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
These knobs offer more fine-grained control to userspace than needed and
directly expose/influence kernel implementation; remove them.
For disabling same_filled handling, there is no logical reason to refuse
storing same-filled pages more efficiently and opt for compression.
Scanning pages for patterns may be an argument, but the page contents will
be read into the CPU cache anyway during compression. Also, removing the
same_filled handling code does not move the needle significantly in terms
of performance anyway [1].
For disabling non_same_filled handling, it was added when the compressed
pages in zswap were not being properly charged to memcgs, as workloads
could escape the accounting with compression [2]. This is no longer the
case after commit f4840ccfca ("zswap: memcg accounting"), and using
zswap without compression does not make much sense.
[1]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAJD7tkaySFP2hBQw4pnZHJJwe3bMdjJ1t9VC2VJd=khn1_TXvA@mail.gmail.com/
[2]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/19d5cdee-2868-41bd-83d5-6da75d72e940@maciej.szmigiero.name/
[yosryahmed@google.com: remove same_filled_pages from docs]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZhxFVggdyvCo79jc@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240413022407.785696-5-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, zswap_store() checks zswap_same_filled_pages_enabled, kmaps the
folio, then calls zswap_is_page_same_filled() to check the folio contents.
Move this logic into zswap_is_page_same_filled() as well (and rename it
to use 'folio' while we are at it).
This makes zswap_store() cleaner, and makes following changes to that
logic contained within the helper.
While we are at it:
- Rename the insert_entry label to store_entry to match xa_store().
- Add comment headers for same-filled functions and the main API
functions (load, store, invalidate, swapon, swapoff).
No functional change intended.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240413022407.785696-4-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Refactor limit and acceptance threshold checking outside of zswap_store().
This code will be moved around in a following patch, so it would be
cleaner to move a function call around.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240413022407.785696-3-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "zswap same-filled and limit checking cleanups", v3.
Miscellaneous cleanups for limit checking and same-filled handling in the
store path. This series was broken out of the "zswap: store zero-filled
pages more efficiently" series [1]. It contains the cleanups and drops
the main functional changes.
[1]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240325235018.2028408-1-yosryahmed@google.com/
This patch (of 4):
The cleanup code in zswap_store() is not pretty, particularly the 'shrink'
label at the bottom that ends up jumping between cleanup labels.
Instead of having a dedicated label to shrink the pool, just use
zswap_pool_reached_full directly to figure out if the pool needs
shrinking. zswap_pool_reached_full should be true if and only if the pool
needs shrinking.
The only caveat is that the value of zswap_pool_reached_full may be
changed by concurrent zswap_store() calls between checking the limit and
testing zswap_pool_reached_full in the cleanup code. This is fine
because:
- If zswap_pool_reached_full was true during limit checking then became
false during the cleanup code, then someone else already took care of
shrinking the pool and there is no need to queue the worker. That
would be a good change.
- If zswap_pool_reached_full was false during limit checking then became
true during the cleanup code, then someone else hit the limit
meanwhile. In this case, both threads will try to queue the worker,
but it never gets queued more than once anyway. Also, calling
queue_work() multiple times when the limit is hit could already happen
today, so this isn't a significant change in any way.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240413022407.785696-1-yosryahmed@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240413022407.785696-2-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Very deep RB tree requires rebalance at times. That contributes to the
zswap fault latencies. Xarray does not need to perform tree rebalance.
Replacing RB tree to xarray can have some small performance gain.
One small difference is that xarray insert might fail with ENOMEM, while
RB tree insert does not allocate additional memory.
The zswap_entry size will reduce a bit due to removing the RB node, which
has two pointers and a color field. Xarray store the pointer in the
xarray tree rather than the zswap_entry. Every entry has one pointer from
the xarray tree. Overall, switching to xarray should save some memory, if
the swap entries are densely packed.
Notice the zswap_rb_search and zswap_rb_insert often followed by
zswap_rb_erase. Use xa_erase and xa_store directly. That saves one tree
lookup as well.
Remove zswap_invalidate_entry due to no need to call zswap_rb_erase any
more. Use zswap_free_entry instead.
The "struct zswap_tree" has been replaced by "struct xarray". The tree
spin lock has transferred to the xarray lock.
Run the kernel build testing 5 times for each version, averages:
(memory.max=2GB, zswap shrinker and writeback enabled, one 50GB swapfile,
24 HT core, 32 jobs)
mm-unstable-4aaccadb5c04 xarray v9
user 3548.902 3534.375
sys 522.232 520.976
real 202.796 200.864
[chrisl@kernel.org: restore original comment "erase" to "invalidate"]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326-zswap-xarray-v10-1-bf698417c968@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326-zswap-xarray-v9-1-d2891a65dfc7@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
nr_stored was introduced by commit b5ba474f3f ("zswap: shrink zswap pool
based on memory pressure") as a per zswap_pool counter of the number of
stored pages that are not same-filled pages. It is used in
zswap_shrinker_count() to scale the number of freeable compressed pages by
the compression ratio. That is, to reduce the amount of writeback from
zswap with higher compression ratios as the ROI from IO diminishes.
Later on, commit bf9b7df23c ("mm/zswap: global lru and shrinker shared
by all zswap_pools") made the shrinker global (not per zswap_pool), and
replaced nr_stored with nr_zswap_stored (initially introduced as
zswap.nr_stored), which is now a global counter.
The counter is now awfully close to zswap_stored_pages. The only
difference is that the latter also includes same-filled pages. Also, when
memcgs are enabled, we use memcg_page_state(memcg, MEMCG_ZSWAPPED), which
includes same-filled pages anyway (i.e. equivalent to
zswap_stored_pages).
Use zswap_stored_pages instead in zswap_shrinker_count() to keep things
consistent whether memcgs are enabled or not, and add a comment about the
number of freeable pages possibly being scaled down more than it should if
we have lots of same-filled pages (i.e. inflated compression ratio).
Remove nr_zswap_stored and one atomic operation in the store and free
paths.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240322001001.1562517-1-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
zswap_find_zpool() checks if ZSWAP_NR_ZPOOLS > 1, which is always true.
This is a remnant from a patch version that had ZSWAP_NR_ZPOOLS as a
config option and never made it upstream. Remove the unnecessary check.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240311235210.2937484-1-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
All zswap backends track their pool sizes in pages. Currently they
multiply by PAGE_SIZE for zswap, only for zswap to divide again in order
to do limit math. Report pages directly.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240312153901.3441-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Profiling the munmap() of a zswapped memory region shows 60% of the total
cycles currently going into updating the zswap_pool_total_size.
There are three consumers of this counter:
- store, to enforce the globally configured pool limit
- meminfo & debugfs, to report the size to the user
- shrink, to determine the batch size for each cycle
Instead of aggregating everytime an entry enters or exits the zswap
pool, aggregate the value from the zpools on-demand:
- Stores aggregate the counter anyway upon success. Aggregating to
check the limit instead is the same amount of work.
- Meminfo & debugfs might benefit somewhat from a pre-aggregated
counter, but aren't exactly hotpaths.
- Shrinking can aggregate once for every cycle instead of doing it for
every freed entry. As the shrinker might work on tens or hundreds of
objects per scan cycle, this is a large reduction in aggregations.
The paths that benefit dramatically are swapin, swapoff, and unmaps.
There could be millions of pages being processed until somebody asks for
the pool size again. This eliminates the pool size updates from those
paths entirely.
Top profile entries for a 24G range munmap(), before:
38.54% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] zs_zpool_total_size
12.51% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] zpool_get_total_size
9.10% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] zswap_update_total_size
2.95% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] obj_cgroup_uncharge_zswap
2.88% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __slab_free
2.86% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] xas_store
and after:
7.70% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __slab_free
7.16% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] obj_cgroup_uncharge_zswap
6.74% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] xas_store
It was also briefly considered to move to a single atomic in zswap
that is updated by the backends, since zswap only cares about the sum
of all pools anyway. However, zram directly needs per-pool information
out of zsmalloc. To keep the backend from having to update two atomics
every time, I opted for the lazy aggregation instead for now.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240312153901.3441-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
9 out of 16 callers perform a NULL check before calling obj_cgroup_put().
Move the NULL check in the function, similar to mem_cgroup_put(). The
unlikely() NULL check in current_objcg_update() was left alone to avoid
dropping the unlikey() annotation as this a fast path.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240316015803.2777252-1-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Christian reports a NULL deref in zswap that he bisected down to the zswap
shrinker. The issue also cropped up in the bug trackers of libguestfs [1]
and the Red Hat bugzilla [2].
The problem is that when memcg is disabled with the boot time flag, the
zswap shrinker might get called with sc->memcg == NULL. This is okay in
many places, like the lruvec operations. But it crashes in
memcg_page_state() - which is only used due to the non-node accounting of
cgroup's the zswap memory to begin with.
Nhat spotted that the memcg can be NULL in the memcg-disabled case, and I
was then able to reproduce the crash locally as well.
[1] https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/issues/139
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2275252
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240418124043.GC1055428@cmpxchg.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240417143324.GA1055428@cmpxchg.org
Fixes: b5ba474f3f ("zswap: shrink zswap pool based on memory pressure")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: Christian Heusel <christian@heusel.eu>
Debugged-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Christian Heusel <christian@heusel.eu>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v6.8]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Zhongkun He reports data corruption when combining zswap with zram.
The issue is the exclusive loads we're doing in zswap. They assume
that all reads are going into the swapcache, which can assume
authoritative ownership of the data and so the zswap copy can go.
However, zram files are marked SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO, and faults will try to
bypass the swapcache. This results in an optimistic read of the swap data
into a page that will be dismissed if the fault fails due to races. In
this case, zswap mustn't drop its authoritative copy.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CACSyD1N+dUvsu8=zV9P691B9bVq33erwOXNTmEaUbi9DrDeJzw@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: b9c91c4341 ("mm: zswap: support exclusive loads")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240324210447.956973-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: Zhongkun He <hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com>
Tested-by: Zhongkun He <hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Acked-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [6.5+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Most compressors are actually CPU-based and won't sleep during compression
and decompression. We should remove the redundant memcpy for them.
This patch checks if the algorithm is sleepable by testing the
CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC algorithm flag.
Generally speaking, async and sleepable are semantically similar but not
equal. But for compress drivers, they are basically equal at least due to
the below facts.
Firstly, scompress drivers - crypto/deflate.c, lz4.c, zstd.c, lzo.c etc
have no sleep. Secondly, zRAM has been using these scompress drivers for
years in atomic contexts, and never worried those drivers going to sleep.
One exception is that an async driver can sometimes still return
synchronously per Herbert's clarification. In this case, we are still
having a redundant memcpy. But we can't know if one particular acomp
request will sleep or not unless crypto can expose more details for each
specific request from offload drivers.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240222081135.173040-3-21cnbao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Tested-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Commit bf9b7df23c ("mm/zswap: global lru and shrinker shared by all
zswap_pools") introduced a new lock to protect zswap_next_shrink, instead
of reusing zswap_pools_lock.
But the problem is that it's initialized only when zswap enabled, which
causes bug if zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup() called without zswap enabled.
Fix it by using DEFINE_SPINLOCK() to statically initialize them and define
them as multiple static variables to keep in consistent with the existing
global variables in zswap.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240305075345.1493214-1-chengming.zhou@linux.dev
Fixes: bf9b7df23c ("mm/zswap: global lru and shrinker shared by all zswap_pools")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202403051008.a8cf8a94-lkp@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
All zswap entries will take a reference of zswap_pool when zswap_store(),
and drop it when free. Change it to use the percpu_ref is better for
scalability performance.
Although percpu_ref use a bit more memory which should be ok for our use
case, since we almost have only one zswap_pool to be using. The
performance gain is for zswap_store/load hotpath.
Testing kernel build (32 threads) in tmpfs with memory.max=2GB. (zswap
shrinker and writeback enabled with one 50GB swapfile, on a 128 CPUs
x86-64 machine, below is the average of 5 runs)
mm-unstable zswap-global-lru
real 63.20 63.12
user 1061.75 1062.95
sys 268.74 264.44
[chengming.zhou@linux.dev: fix zswap_pools_lock usages after changing to percpu_ref]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240228154954.3028626-1-chengming.zhou@linux.dev
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240210-zswap-global-lru-v3-2-200495333595@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/zswap: optimize for dynamic zswap_pools", v3.
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 (32 threads) in tmpfs with memory.max=2GB. (zswap
shrinker and writeback enabled with one 50GB swapfile, on a 128 CPUs
x86-64 machine, below is the average of 5 runs)
mm-unstable zswap-global-lru
real 63.20 63.12
user 1061.75 1062.95
sys 268.74 264.44
This patch (of 3):
Dynamic zswap_pool creation may create/reuse to have multiple zswap_pools
in a list, only the first will be current used.
Each zswap_pool has its own lru and shrinker, which is not necessary and
has its problem:
1. When memory has pressure, all shrinker of zswap_pools will
try to shrink its own lru, there is no order between them.
2. When zswap limit hit, only the last zswap_pool's shrink_work
will try to shrink its lru list. The rationale here was to
try and empty the old pool first so that we can completely
drop it. However, since we only support exclusive loads now,
the LRU ordering should be entirely decided by the order of
stores, so the oldest entries on the LRU will naturally be
from the oldest pool.
Anyway, having a global lru and shrinker shared by all zswap_pools is
better and efficient.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240210-zswap-global-lru-v3-0-200495333595@bytedance.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240210-zswap-global-lru-v3-1-200495333595@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
We used to rely on the returned -ENOSPC of zpool_malloc() to increase
reject_compress_poor. But the code wouldn't get to there after commit
744e188592 ("crypto: scomp - fix req->dst buffer overflow") as the new
code will goto out immediately after the special compression case happens.
So there might be no longer a chance to execute zpool_malloc now. We are
incorrectly increasing zswap_reject_compress_fail instead. Thus, we need
to fix the counters handling right after compressions return ENOSPC. This
patch also centralizes the counters handling for all of compress_poor,
compress_fail and alloc_fail.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240219211935.72394-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Fixes: 744e188592 ("crypto: scomp - fix req->dst buffer overflow")
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
We may encounter duplicate entry in the zswap_store():
1. swap slot that freed to per-cpu swap cache, doesn't invalidate
the zswap entry, then got reused. This has been fixed.
2. !exclusive load mode, swapin folio will leave its zswap entry
on the tree, then swapout again. This has been removed.
3. one folio can be dirtied again after zswap_store(), so need to
zswap_store() again. This should be handled correctly.
So we must invalidate the old duplicate entry before inserting the
new one, which actually doesn't have to be done at the beginning
of zswap_store().
The good point is that we don't need to lock the tree twice in the normal
store success path. And cleanup the loop as we are here.
Note we still need to invalidate the old duplicate entry when store failed
or zswap is disabled , otherwise the new data in swapfile could be
overwrite by the old data in zswap pool when lru writeback.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240209044112.3883835-1-chengming.zhou@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Acked-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Since we don't need to leave zswap entry on the zswap tree anymore,
we should remove it from tree once we find it from the tree.
Then after using it, we can directly free it, no concurrent path
can find it from tree. Only the shrinker can see it from lru list,
which will also double check under tree lock, so no race problem.
So we don't need refcount in zswap entry anymore and don't need to
take the spinlock for the second time to invalidate it.
The side effect is that zswap_entry_free() maybe not happen in tree
spinlock, but it's ok since nothing need to be protected by the lock.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240201-b4-zswap-invalidate-entry-v2-6-99d4084260a0@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The !zswap_exclusive_loads_enabled mode will leave compressed copy in
the zswap tree and lru list after the folio swapin.
There are some disadvantages in this mode:
1. It's a waste of memory since there are two copies of data, one is
folio, the other one is compressed data in zswap. And it's unlikely
the compressed data is useful in the near future.
2. If that folio is dirtied, the compressed data must be not useful,
but we don't know and don't invalidate the trashy memory in zswap.
3. It's not reclaimable from zswap shrinker since zswap_writeback_entry()
will always return -EEXIST and terminate the shrinking process.
On the other hand, the only downside of zswap_exclusive_loads_enabled
is a little more cpu usage/latency when compression, and the same if
the folio is removed from swapcache or dirtied.
More explanation by Johannes on why we should consider exclusive load
as the default for zswap:
Caching "swapout work" is helpful when the system is thrashing. Then
recently swapped in pages might get swapped out again very soon. It
certainly makes sense with conventional swap, because keeping a clean
copy on the disk saves IO work and doesn't cost any additional memory.
But with zswap, it's different. It saves some compression work on a
thrashing page. But the act of keeping compressed memory contributes
to a higher rate of thrashing. And that can cause IO in other places
like zswap writeback and file memory.
And the A/B test results of the kernel build in tmpfs with limited memory
can support this theory:
!exclusive exclusive
real 63.80 63.01
user 1063.83 1061.32
sys 290.31 266.15
workingset_refault_anon 2383084.40 1976397.40
workingset_refault_file 44134.00 45689.40
workingset_activate_anon 837878.00 728441.20
workingset_activate_file 4710.00 4085.20
workingset_restore_anon 732622.60 639428.40
workingset_restore_file 1007.00 926.80
workingset_nodereclaim 0.00 0.00
pgscan 14343003.40 12409570.20
pgscan_kswapd 0.00 0.00
pgscan_direct 14343003.40 12409570.20
pgscan_khugepaged 0.00 0.00
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240201-b4-zswap-invalidate-entry-v2-5-99d4084260a0@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
cat /sys/kernel/debug/zswap/duplicate_entry
2086447
When testing, the duplicate_entry value is very high, but no warning
message in the kernel log. From the comment of duplicate_entry "Duplicate
store was encountered (rare)", it seems something goes wrong.
Actually it's incremented in the beginning of zswap_store(), which found
its zswap entry has already on the tree. And this is a normal case, since
the folio could leave zswap entry on the tree after swapin, later it's
dirtied and swapout/zswap_store again, found its original zswap entry.
So duplicate_entry should be only incremented in the real bug case, which
already have "WARN_ON(1)", it looks redundant to count bug case, so this
patch just remove it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240201-b4-zswap-invalidate-entry-v2-4-99d4084260a0@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When the shrinker encounter an existing folio in swap cache, it means we
are shrinking into the warmer region. We should terminate shrinking if
we're in the dynamic shrinker context.
This patch add LRU_STOP to support this, to avoid overshrinking.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240201-b4-zswap-invalidate-entry-v2-3-99d4084260a0@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
During testing I found there are some times the zswap_writeback_entry()
return -ENOMEM, which is not we expected:
bpftrace -e 'kr:zswap_writeback_entry {@[(int32)retval]=count()}'
@[-12]: 1563
@[0]: 277221
The reason is that __read_swap_cache_async() return NULL because
swapcache_prepare() failed. The reason is that we won't invalidate zswap
entry when swap entry freed to the per-cpu pool, these zswap entries are
still on the zswap tree and lru list.
This patch moves the invalidation ahead to when swap entry freed to the
per-cpu pool, since there is no any benefit to leave trashy zswap entry on
the tree and lru list.
With this patch:
bpftrace -e 'kr:zswap_writeback_entry {@[(int32)retval]=count()}'
@[0]: 259744
Note: large folio can't have zswap entry for now, so don't bother
to add zswap entry invalidation in the large folio swap free path.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240201-b4-zswap-invalidate-entry-v2-2-99d4084260a0@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/zswap: optimize zswap lru list", v2.
This series is motivated when observe the zswap lru list shrinking, noted
there are some unexpected cases in zswap_writeback_entry().
bpftrace -e 'kr:zswap_writeback_entry {@[(int32)retval]=count()}'
There are some -ENOMEM because when the swap entry is freed to per-cpu
swap pool, it doesn't invalidate/drop zswap entry. Then the shrinker
encounter these trashy zswap entries, it can't be reclaimed and return
-ENOMEM.
So move the invalidation ahead to when swap entry freed to the per-cpu
swap pool, since there is no any benefit to leave trashy zswap entries on
the zswap tree and lru list.
Another case is -EEXIST, which is seen more in the case of
!zswap_exclusive_loads_enabled, in which case the swapin folio will leave
compressed copy on the tree and lru list. And it can't be reclaimed until
the folio is removed from swapcache.
Changing to zswap_exclusive_loads_enabled mode will invalidate when folio
swapin, which has its own drawback if that folio is still clean in
swapcache and swapout again, we need to compress it again. Please see the
commit for details on why we choose exclusive load as the default for
zswap.
Another optimization for -EEXIST is that we add LRU_STOP to support
terminating the shrinking process to avoid evicting warmer region.
Testing using kernel build in tmpfs, one 50GB swapfile and
zswap shrinker_enabled, with memory.max set to 2GB.
mm-unstable zswap-optimize
real 63.90s 63.25s
user 1064.05s 1063.40s
sys 292.32s 270.94s
The main optimization is in sys cpu, about 7% improvement.
This patch (of 6):
Add more comments in shrink_memcg_cb() to describe the deref dance which
is implemented to fix race problem between lru writeback and swapoff, and
the reason why we rotate the entry at the beginning.
Also fix the stale comments in zswap_writeback_entry(), and add more
comments to state that we only deref the tree after we get the swapcache
reference.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240201-b4-zswap-invalidate-entry-v2-0-99d4084260a0@bytedance.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240201-b4-zswap-invalidate-entry-v2-1-99d4084260a0@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Suggested-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
shrink_memcg_cb() is called by the shrinker and is based on
zswap_writeback_entry(). Move it in between. Save one fwd decl.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240130014208.565554-21-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The per-cpu compression init/exit callbacks are awkwardly in the
middle of the shrinker code. Move them up to the compression section.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240130014208.565554-19-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Writeback needs to decompress. Move the (de)compression API above what
will be the consolidated shrinking/writeback code.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240130014208.565554-18-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The higher-level entry operations modify the tree, so move the entry
API after the tree section.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240130014208.565554-17-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This completes consolidation of the LRU section.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240130014208.565554-16-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The zswap entry section sits awkwardly in the middle of LRU-related
functions. Group the external LRU API functions first.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240130014208.565554-15-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm: zswap: cleanups".
Cleanups and maintenance items that accumulated while reviewing zswap
patches.
This patch (of 20):
The parameters primarily control pool attributes. Move those
operations up to the pool section.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240130014208.565554-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240130014208.565554-14-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Move the operations against the global zswap_pools list (current pool,
last, find) to the pool section.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240130014208.565554-13-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Move pool refcounting functions into the pool section. First the
destroy functions, then the get and put which uses them.
__zswap_pool_empty() has an upward reference to the global
zswap_pools, to sanity check it's not the currently active pool that's
being freed. That gets the forward decl for zswap_pool_current().
This puts the get and put function above all callers, so kill the
forward decls as well.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240130014208.565554-12-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
