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[PATCHv5,00/13] zram: Support multiple compression streams

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Sergey Senozhatsky Nov. 9, 2022, 11:50 a.m. UTC
Hello,

	This series adds support for multiple compression streams.
The main idea is that different compression algorithms have different
characteristics and zram may benefit when it uses a combination of
algorithms: a default algorithm that is faster but have lower
compression rate and a secondary algorithm that can use higher
compression rate at a price of slower compression/decompression.

	There are several use-case for this functionality:

- huge pages re-compression: zstd or deflate can successfully
compress huge pages (~50% of huge pages on my synthetic ChromeOS
tests), IOW pages that lzo was not able to compress.

- idle pages re-compression: idle/cold pages sit in the memory
and we may reduce zsmalloc memory usage if we recompress those
idle pages.

	User-space has a number of ways to control the behavior
and impact of zram recompression: what type of pages should be
recompressed, size watermarks, etc. Please refer to documentation
patch.

v5:
-- Addressed (very valuable) review feedback from Minchan
-- Extended documentation
-- We now do chain recompression, tryin algos in order of their priority
-- Support up to 4 compression streams
-- Added named parameters to recomp_algorithm and recompress sysfs knobs
-- Cherry-picked patch from Alexey
-- Store algo priority in mete flags
-- Renamed some fo the flags
-- Added incompressible bit to block state output
-- Added incompressible writeback
-- etc.

v4:
-- added IS_ERR_VALUE patch (Andrew)
-- documented SIZE units (bytes) (Andrew)
-- re-phrased writeback BIO error comment (Andrew)
-- return zs_malloc() error code from zram_recompress()
-- do not lose zram_recompress() error in recompress_store()
-- corrected a typo
-- fixed previous rebase errors
-- rebased the series

v3:
-- conditionally reschedule during recompression loop so that
   we don't stall RCU grace periods
-- fixed a false-positive WARN_ON

v2:
-- rebased
-- mark completely incompressible pages (neither default nor secondary
   algorithm can compress them) with a new flag so that we don't attempt
   to recompress them all the time

Alexey Romanov (1):
  zram: add size class equals check into recompression

Sergey Senozhatsky (12):
  zram: Preparation for multi-zcomp support
  zram: Add recompression algorithm sysfs knob
  zram: Factor out WB and non-WB zram read functions
  zram: Introduce recompress sysfs knob
  zram: Add recompress flag to read_block_state()
  zram: Clarify writeback_store() comment
  zram: Use IS_ERR_VALUE() to check for zs_malloc() errors
  zram: remove redundant checks from zram_recompress()
  zram: Add algo parameter support to zram_recompress()
  documentation: Add zram recompression documentation
  zram: add incompressible writeback
  zram: Add incompressible flag to read_block_state()

 Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst | 100 +++-
 drivers/block/zram/Kconfig                  |   9 +
 drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c                  |   6 +-
 drivers/block/zram/zcomp.h                  |   2 +-
 drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c               | 604 +++++++++++++++++---
 drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h               |  22 +-
 include/linux/zsmalloc.h                    |   2 +
 mm/zsmalloc.c                               |  21 +
 8 files changed, 685 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)

Comments

Minchan Kim Nov. 9, 2022, 9:46 p.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 08:50:34PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 	This series adds support for multiple compression streams.
> The main idea is that different compression algorithms have different
> characteristics and zram may benefit when it uses a combination of
> algorithms: a default algorithm that is faster but have lower
> compression rate and a secondary algorithm that can use higher
> compression rate at a price of slower compression/decompression.
> 
> 	There are several use-case for this functionality:
> 
> - huge pages re-compression: zstd or deflate can successfully
> compress huge pages (~50% of huge pages on my synthetic ChromeOS
> tests), IOW pages that lzo was not able to compress.
> 
> - idle pages re-compression: idle/cold pages sit in the memory
> and we may reduce zsmalloc memory usage if we recompress those
> idle pages.
> 
> 	User-space has a number of ways to control the behavior
> and impact of zram recompression: what type of pages should be
> recompressed, size watermarks, etc. Please refer to documentation
> patch.
> 
> v5:
> -- Addressed (very valuable) review feedback from Minchan
> -- Extended documentation
> -- We now do chain recompression, tryin algos in order of their priority
> -- Support up to 4 compression streams
> -- Added named parameters to recomp_algorithm and recompress sysfs knobs
> -- Cherry-picked patch from Alexey
> -- Store algo priority in mete flags
> -- Renamed some fo the flags
> -- Added incompressible bit to block state output
> -- Added incompressible writeback
> -- etc.
> 
> v4:
> -- added IS_ERR_VALUE patch (Andrew)
> -- documented SIZE units (bytes) (Andrew)
> -- re-phrased writeback BIO error comment (Andrew)
> -- return zs_malloc() error code from zram_recompress()
> -- do not lose zram_recompress() error in recompress_store()
> -- corrected a typo
> -- fixed previous rebase errors
> -- rebased the series
> 
> v3:
> -- conditionally reschedule during recompression loop so that
>    we don't stall RCU grace periods
> -- fixed a false-positive WARN_ON
> 
> v2:
> -- rebased
> -- mark completely incompressible pages (neither default nor secondary
>    algorithm can compress them) with a new flag so that we don't attempt
>    to recompress them all the time
> 
> Alexey Romanov (1):
>   zram: add size class equals check into recompression
> 
> Sergey Senozhatsky (12):
>   zram: Preparation for multi-zcomp support
>   zram: Add recompression algorithm sysfs knob
>   zram: Factor out WB and non-WB zram read functions
>   zram: Introduce recompress sysfs knob
>   zram: Add recompress flag to read_block_state()
>   zram: Clarify writeback_store() comment
>   zram: Use IS_ERR_VALUE() to check for zs_malloc() errors
>   zram: remove redundant checks from zram_recompress()
>   zram: Add algo parameter support to zram_recompress()
>   documentation: Add zram recompression documentation
>   zram: add incompressible writeback
>   zram: Add incompressible flag to read_block_state()
> 
>  Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst | 100 +++-
>  drivers/block/zram/Kconfig                  |   9 +
>  drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c                  |   6 +-
>  drivers/block/zram/zcomp.h                  |   2 +-
>  drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c               | 604 +++++++++++++++++---
>  drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h               |  22 +-
>  include/linux/zsmalloc.h                    |   2 +
>  mm/zsmalloc.c                               |  21 +
>  8 files changed, 685 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

Thanks!