[PATCHv3,0/8] zram: Support multiple compression streams

Message

Sergey Senozhatsky Oct. 9, 2022, 9:07 a.m. UTC

Hello,

        This series adds support for multiple (per-CPU)
compression streams (at point only 2). 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.

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

Sergey Senozhatsky (8):
  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
  documentation: Add recompression documentation
  zram: Add recompression algorithm choice to Kconfig
  zram: Add recompress flag to read_block_state()
  zram: correct typos

 Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst |  64 ++-
 drivers/block/zram/Kconfig                  |  52 +++
 drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c                  |   6 +-
 drivers/block/zram/zcomp.h                  |   2 +-
 drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c               | 441 +++++++++++++++++---
 drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h               |  16 +-
 6 files changed, 510 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)

Comments

Sergey Senozhatsky Oct. 18, 2022, 3:11 a.m. UTC | #1

Andrew, I will send a rebased (v4) series shortly. Please drop the
patches from your tree.