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Sergey Senozhatsky
da9556a236 zram: user per-cpu compression streams
Remove idle streams list and keep compression streams in per-cpu data.
This removes two contented spin_lock()/spin_unlock() calls from write
path and also prevent write OP from being preempted while holding the
compression stream, which can cause slow downs.

For instance, let's assume that we have N cpus and N-2
max_comp_streams.TASK1 owns the last idle stream, TASK2-TASK3 come in
with the write requests:

  TASK1            TASK2              TASK3
 zram_bvec_write()
  spin_lock
  find stream
  spin_unlock

  compress

  <<preempted>>   zram_bvec_write()
                   spin_lock
                   find stream
                   spin_unlock
                     no_stream
                       schedule
                                     zram_bvec_write()
                                      spin_lock
                                      find_stream
                                      spin_unlock
                                        no_stream
                                          schedule
   spin_lock
   release stream
   spin_unlock
     wake up TASK2

not only TASK2 and TASK3 will not get the stream, TASK1 will be
preempted in the middle of its operation; while we would prefer it to
finish compression and release the stream.

Test environment: x86_64, 4 CPU box, 3G zram, lzo

The following fio tests were executed:
      read, randread, write, randwrite, rw, randrw
with the increasing number of jobs from 1 to 10.

                  4 streams        8 streams       per-cpu
  ===========================================================
  jobs1
  READ:           2520.1MB/s       2566.5MB/s      2491.5MB/s
  READ:           2102.7MB/s       2104.2MB/s      2091.3MB/s
  WRITE:          1355.1MB/s       1320.2MB/s      1378.9MB/s
  WRITE:          1103.5MB/s       1097.2MB/s      1122.5MB/s
  READ:           434013KB/s       435153KB/s      439961KB/s
  WRITE:          433969KB/s       435109KB/s      439917KB/s
  READ:           403166KB/s       405139KB/s      403373KB/s
  WRITE:          403223KB/s       405197KB/s      403430KB/s
  jobs2
  READ:           7958.6MB/s       8105.6MB/s      8073.7MB/s
  READ:           6864.9MB/s       6989.8MB/s      7021.8MB/s
  WRITE:          2438.1MB/s       2346.9MB/s      3400.2MB/s
  WRITE:          1994.2MB/s       1990.3MB/s      2941.2MB/s
  READ:           981504KB/s       973906KB/s      1018.8MB/s
  WRITE:          981659KB/s       974060KB/s      1018.1MB/s
  READ:           937021KB/s       938976KB/s      987250KB/s
  WRITE:          934878KB/s       936830KB/s      984993KB/s
  jobs3
  READ:           13280MB/s        13553MB/s       13553MB/s
  READ:           11534MB/s        11785MB/s       11755MB/s
  WRITE:          3456.9MB/s       3469.9MB/s      4810.3MB/s
  WRITE:          3029.6MB/s       3031.6MB/s      4264.8MB/s
  READ:           1363.8MB/s       1362.6MB/s      1448.9MB/s
  WRITE:          1361.9MB/s       1360.7MB/s      1446.9MB/s
  READ:           1309.4MB/s       1310.6MB/s      1397.5MB/s
  WRITE:          1307.4MB/s       1308.5MB/s      1395.3MB/s
  jobs4
  READ:           20244MB/s        20177MB/s       20344MB/s
  READ:           17886MB/s        17913MB/s       17835MB/s
  WRITE:          4071.6MB/s       4046.1MB/s      6370.2MB/s
  WRITE:          3608.9MB/s       3576.3MB/s      5785.4MB/s
  READ:           1824.3MB/s       1821.6MB/s      1997.5MB/s
  WRITE:          1819.8MB/s       1817.4MB/s      1992.5MB/s
  READ:           1765.7MB/s       1768.3MB/s      1937.3MB/s
  WRITE:          1767.5MB/s       1769.1MB/s      1939.2MB/s
  jobs5
  READ:           18663MB/s        18986MB/s       18823MB/s
  READ:           16659MB/s        16605MB/s       16954MB/s
  WRITE:          3912.4MB/s       3888.7MB/s      6126.9MB/s
  WRITE:          3506.4MB/s       3442.5MB/s      5519.3MB/s
  READ:           1798.2MB/s       1746.5MB/s      1935.8MB/s
  WRITE:          1792.7MB/s       1740.7MB/s      1929.1MB/s
  READ:           1727.6MB/s       1658.2MB/s      1917.3MB/s
  WRITE:          1726.5MB/s       1657.2MB/s      1916.6MB/s
  jobs6
  READ:           21017MB/s        20922MB/s       21162MB/s
  READ:           19022MB/s        19140MB/s       18770MB/s
  WRITE:          3968.2MB/s       4037.7MB/s      6620.8MB/s
  WRITE:          3643.5MB/s       3590.2MB/s      6027.5MB/s
  READ:           1871.8MB/s       1880.5MB/s      2049.9MB/s
  WRITE:          1867.8MB/s       1877.2MB/s      2046.2MB/s
  READ:           1755.8MB/s       1710.3MB/s      1964.7MB/s
  WRITE:          1750.5MB/s       1705.9MB/s      1958.8MB/s
  jobs7
  READ:           21103MB/s        20677MB/s       21482MB/s
  READ:           18522MB/s        18379MB/s       19443MB/s
  WRITE:          4022.5MB/s       4067.4MB/s      6755.9MB/s
  WRITE:          3691.7MB/s       3695.5MB/s      5925.6MB/s
  READ:           1841.5MB/s       1933.9MB/s      2090.5MB/s
  WRITE:          1842.7MB/s       1935.3MB/s      2091.9MB/s
  READ:           1832.4MB/s       1856.4MB/s      1971.5MB/s
  WRITE:          1822.3MB/s       1846.2MB/s      1960.6MB/s
  jobs8
  READ:           20463MB/s        20194MB/s       20862MB/s
  READ:           18178MB/s        17978MB/s       18299MB/s
  WRITE:          4085.9MB/s       4060.2MB/s      7023.8MB/s
  WRITE:          3776.3MB/s       3737.9MB/s      6278.2MB/s
  READ:           1957.6MB/s       1944.4MB/s      2109.5MB/s
  WRITE:          1959.2MB/s       1946.2MB/s      2111.4MB/s
  READ:           1900.6MB/s       1885.7MB/s      2082.1MB/s
  WRITE:          1896.2MB/s       1881.4MB/s      2078.3MB/s
  jobs9
  READ:           19692MB/s        19734MB/s       19334MB/s
  READ:           17678MB/s        18249MB/s       17666MB/s
  WRITE:          4004.7MB/s       4064.8MB/s      6990.7MB/s
  WRITE:          3724.7MB/s       3772.1MB/s      6193.6MB/s
  READ:           1953.7MB/s       1967.3MB/s      2105.6MB/s
  WRITE:          1953.4MB/s       1966.7MB/s      2104.1MB/s
  READ:           1860.4MB/s       1897.4MB/s      2068.5MB/s
  WRITE:          1858.9MB/s       1895.9MB/s      2066.8MB/s
  jobs10
  READ:           19730MB/s        19579MB/s       19492MB/s
  READ:           18028MB/s        18018MB/s       18221MB/s
  WRITE:          4027.3MB/s       4090.6MB/s      7020.1MB/s
  WRITE:          3810.5MB/s       3846.8MB/s      6426.8MB/s
  READ:           1956.1MB/s       1994.6MB/s      2145.2MB/s
  WRITE:          1955.9MB/s       1993.5MB/s      2144.8MB/s
  READ:           1852.8MB/s       1911.6MB/s      2075.8MB/s
  WRITE:          1855.7MB/s       1914.6MB/s      2078.1MB/s

perf stat

                                  4 streams                       8 streams                       per-cpu
  ====================================================================================================================
  jobs1
  stalled-cycles-frontend      23,174,811,209 (  38.21%)     23,220,254,188 (  38.25%)       23,061,406,918 (  38.34%)
  stalled-cycles-backend       11,514,174,638 (  18.98%)     11,696,722,657 (  19.27%)       11,370,852,810 (  18.90%)
  instructions                 73,925,005,782 (    1.22)     73,903,177,632 (    1.22)       73,507,201,037 (    1.22)
  branches                     14,455,124,835 ( 756.063)     14,455,184,779 ( 755.281)       14,378,599,509 ( 758.546)
  branch-misses                    69,801,336 (   0.48%)         80,225,529 (   0.55%)           72,044,726 (   0.50%)
  jobs2
  stalled-cycles-frontend      49,912,741,782 (  46.11%)     50,101,189,290 (  45.95%)       32,874,195,633 (  35.11%)
  stalled-cycles-backend       27,080,366,230 (  25.02%)     27,949,970,232 (  25.63%)       16,461,222,706 (  17.58%)
  instructions                122,831,629,690 (    1.13)    122,919,846,419 (    1.13)      121,924,786,775 (    1.30)
  branches                     23,725,889,239 ( 692.663)     23,733,547,140 ( 688.062)       23,553,950,311 ( 794.794)
  branch-misses                    90,733,041 (   0.38%)         96,320,895 (   0.41%)           84,561,092 (   0.36%)
  jobs3
  stalled-cycles-frontend      66,437,834,608 (  45.58%)     63,534,923,344 (  43.69%)       42,101,478,505 (  33.19%)
  stalled-cycles-backend       34,940,799,661 (  23.97%)     34,774,043,148 (  23.91%)       21,163,324,388 (  16.68%)
  instructions                171,692,121,862 (    1.18)    171,775,373,044 (    1.18)      170,353,542,261 (    1.34)
  branches                     32,968,962,622 ( 628.723)     32,987,739,894 ( 630.512)       32,729,463,918 ( 717.027)
  branch-misses                   111,522,732 (   0.34%)        110,472,894 (   0.33%)           99,791,291 (   0.30%)
  jobs4
  stalled-cycles-frontend      98,741,701,675 (  49.72%)     94,797,349,965 (  47.59%)       54,535,655,381 (  33.53%)
  stalled-cycles-backend       54,642,609,615 (  27.51%)     55,233,554,408 (  27.73%)       27,882,323,541 (  17.14%)
  instructions                220,884,807,851 (    1.11)    220,930,887,273 (    1.11)      218,926,845,851 (    1.35)
  branches                     42,354,518,180 ( 592.105)     42,362,770,587 ( 590.452)       41,955,552,870 ( 716.154)
  branch-misses                   138,093,449 (   0.33%)        131,295,286 (   0.31%)          121,794,771 (   0.29%)
  jobs5
  stalled-cycles-frontend     116,219,747,212 (  48.14%)    110,310,397,012 (  46.29%)       66,373,082,723 (  33.70%)
  stalled-cycles-backend       66,325,434,776 (  27.48%)     64,157,087,914 (  26.92%)       32,999,097,299 (  16.76%)
  instructions                270,615,008,466 (    1.12)    270,546,409,525 (    1.14)      268,439,910,948 (    1.36)
  branches                     51,834,046,557 ( 599.108)     51,811,867,722 ( 608.883)       51,412,576,077 ( 729.213)
  branch-misses                   158,197,086 (   0.31%)        142,639,805 (   0.28%)          133,425,455 (   0.26%)
  jobs6
  stalled-cycles-frontend     138,009,414,492 (  48.23%)    139,063,571,254 (  48.80%)       75,278,568,278 (  32.80%)
  stalled-cycles-backend       79,211,949,650 (  27.68%)     79,077,241,028 (  27.75%)       37,735,797,899 (  16.44%)
  instructions                319,763,993,731 (    1.12)    319,937,782,834 (    1.12)      316,663,600,784 (    1.38)
  branches                     61,219,433,294 ( 595.056)     61,250,355,540 ( 598.215)       60,523,446,617 ( 733.706)
  branch-misses                   169,257,123 (   0.28%)        154,898,028 (   0.25%)          141,180,587 (   0.23%)
  jobs7
  stalled-cycles-frontend     162,974,812,119 (  49.20%)    159,290,061,987 (  48.43%)       88,046,641,169 (  33.21%)
  stalled-cycles-backend       92,223,151,661 (  27.84%)     91,667,904,406 (  27.87%)       44,068,454,971 (  16.62%)
  instructions                369,516,432,430 (    1.12)    369,361,799,063 (    1.12)      365,290,380,661 (    1.38)
  branches                     70,795,673,950 ( 594.220)     70,743,136,124 ( 597.876)       69,803,996,038 ( 732.822)
  branch-misses                   181,708,327 (   0.26%)        165,767,821 (   0.23%)          150,109,797 (   0.22%)
  jobs8
  stalled-cycles-frontend     185,000,017,027 (  49.30%)    182,334,345,473 (  48.37%)       99,980,147,041 (  33.26%)
  stalled-cycles-backend      105,753,516,186 (  28.18%)    107,937,830,322 (  28.63%)       51,404,177,181 (  17.10%)
  instructions                418,153,161,055 (    1.11)    418,308,565,828 (    1.11)      413,653,475,581 (    1.38)
  branches                     80,035,882,398 ( 592.296)     80,063,204,510 ( 589.843)       79,024,105,589 ( 730.530)
  branch-misses                   199,764,528 (   0.25%)        177,936,926 (   0.22%)          160,525,449 (   0.20%)
  jobs9
  stalled-cycles-frontend     210,941,799,094 (  49.63%)    204,714,679,254 (  48.55%)      114,251,113,756 (  33.96%)
  stalled-cycles-backend      122,640,849,067 (  28.85%)    122,188,553,256 (  28.98%)       58,360,041,127 (  17.35%)
  instructions                468,151,025,415 (    1.10)    467,354,869,323 (    1.11)      462,665,165,216 (    1.38)
  branches                     89,657,067,510 ( 585.628)     89,411,550,407 ( 588.990)       88,360,523,943 ( 730.151)
  branch-misses                   218,292,301 (   0.24%)        191,701,247 (   0.21%)          178,535,678 (   0.20%)
  jobs10
  stalled-cycles-frontend     233,595,958,008 (  49.81%)    227,540,615,689 (  49.11%)      160,341,979,938 (  43.07%)
  stalled-cycles-backend      136,153,676,021 (  29.03%)    133,635,240,742 (  28.84%)       65,909,135,465 (  17.70%)
  instructions                517,001,168,497 (    1.10)    516,210,976,158 (    1.11)      511,374,038,613 (    1.37)
  branches                     98,911,641,329 ( 585.796)     98,700,069,712 ( 591.583)       97,646,761,028 ( 728.712)
  branch-misses                   232,341,823 (   0.23%)        199,256,308 (   0.20%)          183,135,268 (   0.19%)

per-cpu streams tend to cause significantly less stalled cycles; execute
less branches and hit less branch-misses.

perf stat reported execution time

                          4 streams        8 streams       per-cpu
  ====================================================================
  jobs1
  seconds elapsed        20.909073870     20.875670495    20.817838540
  jobs2
  seconds elapsed        18.529488399     18.720566469    16.356103108
  jobs3
  seconds elapsed        18.991159531     18.991340812    16.766216066
  jobs4
  seconds elapsed        19.560643828     19.551323547    16.246621715
  jobs5
  seconds elapsed        24.746498464     25.221646740    20.696112444
  jobs6
  seconds elapsed        28.258181828     28.289765505    22.885688857
  jobs7
  seconds elapsed        32.632490241     31.909125381    26.272753738
  jobs8
  seconds elapsed        35.651403851     36.027596308    29.108024711
  jobs9
  seconds elapsed        40.569362365     40.024227989    32.898204012
  jobs10
  seconds elapsed        44.673112304     43.874898137    35.632952191

Please see
  Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=146166970727530
  Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=146174716719650
for more test results (under low memory conditions).

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
Minchan Kim
75d8947a36 zram: pass gfp from zcomp frontend to backend
Each zcomp backend uses own gfp flag but it's pointless because the
context they could be called is driven by upper layer(ie, zcomp
frontend).  As well, zcomp frondend could call them in different
context.  One context(ie, zram init part) is it should be better to make
sure successful allocation other context(ie, further stream allocation
part for accelarating I/O speed) is just optional so let's pass gfp down
from driver (ie, zcomp frontend) like normal MM convention.

[sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com: add missing __vmalloc zero and highmem gfps]
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-15 11:40:51 -08:00
Sergey Senozhatsky
d93435c3fb zram: check comp algorithm availability earlier
Improvement idea by Marcin Jabrzyk.

comp_algorithm_store() silently accepts any supplied algorithm name,
because zram performs algorithm availability check later, during the
device configuration phase in disksize_store() and emits the following
error:

  "zram: Cannot initialise %s compressing backend"

this error line is somewhat generic and, besides, can indicate a failed
attempt to allocate compression backend's working buffers.

add algorithm availability check to comp_algorithm_store():

  echo lzz > /sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm
  -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Marcin Jabrzyk <m.jabrzyk@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-25 17:00:37 -07:00
Minchan Kim
60a726e333 zram: propagate error to user
When we initialized zcomp with single, we couldn't change
max_comp_streams without zram reset but current interface doesn't show
any error to user and even it changes max_comp_streams's value without
any effect so it would make user very confusing.

This patch prevents max_comp_streams's change when zcomp was initialized
as single zcomp and emit the error to user(ex, echo).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't return with the lock held, per Sergey]
[fengguang.wu@intel.com: fix coccinelle warnings]
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:02 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky
e46b8a030d zram: make compression algorithm selection possible
Add and document `comp_algorithm' device attribute.  This attribute allows
to show supported compression and currently selected compression
algorithms:

	cat /sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm
	[lzo] lz4

and change selected compression algorithm:
	echo lzo > /sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:01 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky
fe8eb122c8 zram: add set_max_streams knob
This patch allows to change max_comp_streams on initialised zcomp.

Introduce zcomp set_max_streams() knob, zcomp_strm_multi_set_max_streams()
and zcomp_strm_single_set_max_streams() callbacks to change streams limit
for zcomp_strm_multi and zcomp_strm_single, accordingly.  set_max_streams
for single steam zcomp does nothing.

If user has lowered the limit, then zcomp_strm_multi_set_max_streams()
attempts to immediately free extra streams (as much as it can, depending
on idle streams availability).

Note, this patch does not allow to change stream 'policy' from single to
multi stream (or vice versa) on already initialised compression backend.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:01 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky
beca3ec71f zram: add multi stream functionality
Existing zram (zcomp) implementation has only one compression stream
(buffer and algorithm private part), so in order to prevent data
corruption only one write (compress operation) can use this compression
stream, forcing all concurrent write operations to wait for stream lock
to be released.  This patch changes zcomp to keep a compression streams
list of user-defined size (via sysfs device attr).  Each write operation
still exclusively holds compression stream, the difference is that we
can have N write operations (depending on size of streams list)
executing in parallel.  See TEST section later in commit message for
performance data.

Introduce struct zcomp_strm_multi and a set of functions to manage
zcomp_strm stream access.  zcomp_strm_multi has a list of idle
zcomp_strm structs, spinlock to protect idle list and wait queue, making
it possible to perform parallel compressions.

The following set of functions added:
- zcomp_strm_multi_find()/zcomp_strm_multi_release()
  find and release a compression stream, implement required locking
- zcomp_strm_multi_create()/zcomp_strm_multi_destroy()
  create and destroy zcomp_strm_multi

zcomp ->strm_find() and ->strm_release() callbacks are set during
initialisation to zcomp_strm_multi_find()/zcomp_strm_multi_release()
correspondingly.

Each time zcomp issues a zcomp_strm_multi_find() call, the following set
of operations performed:

- spin lock strm_lock
- if idle list is not empty, remove zcomp_strm from idle list, spin
  unlock and return zcomp stream pointer to caller
- if idle list is empty, current adds itself to wait queue. it will be
  awaken by zcomp_strm_multi_release() caller.

zcomp_strm_multi_release():
- spin lock strm_lock
- add zcomp stream to idle list
- spin unlock, wake up sleeper

Minchan Kim reported that spinlock-based locking scheme has demonstrated
a severe perfomance regression for single compression stream case,
comparing to mutex-based (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/18/16)

base                      spinlock                    mutex

==Initial write           ==Initial write             ==Initial  write
records:  5               records:  5                 records:   5
avg:      1642424.35      avg:      699610.40         avg:       1655583.71
std:      39890.95(2.43%) std:      232014.19(33.16%) std:       52293.96
max:      1690170.94      max:      1163473.45        max:       1697164.75
min:      1568669.52      min:      573429.88         min:       1553410.23
==Rewrite                 ==Rewrite                   ==Rewrite
records:  5               records:  5                 records:   5
avg:      1611775.39      avg:      501406.64         avg:       1684419.11
std:      17144.58(1.06%) std:      15354.41(3.06%)   std:       18367.42
max:      1641800.95      max:      531356.78         max:       1706445.84
min:      1593515.27      min:      488817.78         min:       1655335.73

When only one compression stream available, mutex with spin on owner
tends to perform much better than frequent wait_event()/wake_up().  This
is why single stream implemented as a special case with mutex locking.

Introduce and document zram device attribute max_comp_streams.  This
attr shows and stores current zcomp's max number of zcomp streams
(max_strm).  Extend zcomp's zcomp_create() with `max_strm' parameter.
`max_strm' limits the number of zcomp_strm structs in compression
backend's idle list (max_comp_streams).

max_comp_streams used during initialisation as follows:
-- passing to zcomp_create() max_strm equals to 1 will initialise zcomp
using single compression stream zcomp_strm_single (mutex-based locking).
-- passing to zcomp_create() max_strm greater than 1 will initialise zcomp
using multi compression stream zcomp_strm_multi (spinlock-based locking).

default max_comp_streams value is 1, meaning that zram with single stream
will be initialised.

Later patch will introduce configuration knob to change max_comp_streams
on already initialised and used zcomp.

TEST
iozone -t 3 -R -r 16K -s 60M -I +Z

       test           base       1 strm (mutex)     3 strm (spinlock)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Initial write      589286.78       583518.39          718011.05
       Rewrite      604837.97       596776.38         1515125.72
  Random write      584120.11       595714.58         1388850.25
        Pwrite      535731.17       541117.38          739295.27
        Fwrite     1418083.88      1478612.72         1484927.06

Usage example:
set max_comp_streams to 4
        echo 4 > /sys/block/zram0/max_comp_streams

show current max_comp_streams (default value is 1).
        cat /sys/block/zram0/max_comp_streams

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:01 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky
9cc97529a1 zram: factor out single stream compression
This is preparation patch to add multi stream support to zcomp.

Introduce struct zcomp_strm_single and a set of functions to manage
zcomp_strm stream access.  zcomp_strm_single implements single compession
stream, same way as current zcomp implementation.  This moves zcomp_strm
stream control and locking from zcomp, so compressing backend zcomp is not
aware of required locking.

Single and multi streams require different locking schemes.  Minchan Kim
reported that spinlock-based locking scheme (which is used in multi stream
implementation) has demonstrated a severe perfomance regression for single
compression stream case, comparing to mutex-based.  see
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/18/16

The following set of functions added:
- zcomp_strm_single_find()/zcomp_strm_single_release()
  find and release a compression stream, implement required locking
- zcomp_strm_single_create()/zcomp_strm_single_destroy()
  create and destroy zcomp_strm_single

New ->strm_find() and ->strm_release() callbacks added to zcomp, which are
set to zcomp_strm_single_find() and zcomp_strm_single_release() during
initialisation.  Instead of direct locking and zcomp_strm access from
zcomp_strm_find() and zcomp_strm_release(), zcomp now calls ->strm_find()
and ->strm_release() correspondingly.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:01 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky
e7e1ef439d zram: introduce compressing backend abstraction
ZRAM performs direct LZO compression algorithm calls, making it the one
and only option.  While LZO is generally performs well, LZ4 algorithm
tends to have a faster decompression (see http://code.google.com/p/lz4/
for full report)

	Name            Ratio  C.speed D.speed
	                        MB/s    MB/s
	LZ4 (r101)      2.084    422    1820
	LZO 2.06        2.106    414     600

Thus, users who have mostly read (decompress) usage scenarious or mixed
workflow (writes with relatively high read ops number) will benefit from
using LZ4 compression backend.

Introduce compressing backend abstraction zcomp in order to support
multiple compression algorithms with the following set of operations:

        .create
        .destroy
        .compress
        .decompress

Schematically zram write() usually contains the following steps:
0) preparation (decompression of partioal IO, etc.)
1) lock buffer_lock mutex (protects meta compress buffers)
2) compress (using meta compress buffers)
3) alloc and map zs_pool object
4) copy compressed data (from meta compress buffers) to object allocated by 3)
5) free previous pool page, assign a new one
6) unlock buffer_lock mutex

As we can see, compressing buffers must remain untouched from 1) to 4),
because, otherwise, concurrent write() can overwrite data.  At the same
time, zram_meta must be aware of a) specific compression algorithm memory
requirements and b) necessary locking to protect compression buffers.  To
remove requirement a) new struct zcomp_strm introduced, which contains a
compress/decompress `buffer' and compression algorithm `private' part.
While struct zcomp implements zcomp_strm stream handling and locking and
removes requirement b) from zram meta.  zcomp ->create() and ->destroy(),
respectively, allocate and deallocate algorithm specific zcomp_strm
`private' part.

Every zcomp has zcomp stream and mutex to protect its compression stream.
Stream usage semantics remains the same -- only one write can hold stream
lock and use its buffers.  zcomp_strm_find() turns caller into exclusive
user of a stream (holding stream mutex until zram release stream), and
zcomp_strm_release() makes zcomp stream available (unlock the stream
mutex).  Hence no concurrent write (compression) operations possible at
the moment.

iozone -t 3 -R -r 16K -s 60M -I +Z

       test            base           patched
--------------------------------------------------
  Initial write      597992.91       591660.58
        Rewrite      609674.34       616054.97
           Read     2404771.75      2452909.12
        Re-read     2459216.81      2470074.44
   Reverse Read     1652769.66      1589128.66
    Stride read     2202441.81      2202173.31
    Random read     2236311.47      2276565.31
 Mixed workload     1423760.41      1709760.06
   Random write      579584.08       615933.86
         Pwrite      597550.02       594933.70
          Pread     1703672.53      1718126.72
         Fwrite     1330497.06      1461054.00
          Fread     3922851.00      3957242.62

Usage examples:

	comp = zcomp_create(NAME) /* NAME e.g. "lzo" */

which initialises compressing backend if requested algorithm is supported.

Compress:
	zstrm = zcomp_strm_find(comp)
	zcomp_compress(comp, zstrm, src, &dst_len)
	[..] /* copy compressed data */
	zcomp_strm_release(comp, zstrm)

Decompress:
	zcomp_decompress(comp, src, src_len, dst);

Free compessing backend and its zcomp stream:
	zcomp_destroy(comp)

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:01 -07:00