[PATCH v2 2/2] mm/zswap: change zswap_pool kref to percpu_ref

[Chengming Zhou]

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

Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/zswap.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
index dbff67d7e1c7..f6470d30d337 100644
--- a/mm/zswap.c
+++ b/mm/zswap.c
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ struct crypto_acomp_ctx {
 struct zswap_pool {
 	struct zpool *zpools[ZSWAP_NR_ZPOOLS];
 	struct crypto_acomp_ctx __percpu *acomp_ctx;
-	struct kref kref;
+	struct percpu_ref ref;
 	struct list_head list;
 	struct work_struct release_work;
 	struct hlist_node node;
@@ -304,6 +304,7 @@ static void zswap_update_total_size(void)
 /*********************************
 * pool functions
 **********************************/
+static void __zswap_pool_empty(struct percpu_ref *ref);
 
 static struct zswap_pool *zswap_pool_create(char *type, char *compressor)
 {
@@ -357,13 +358,18 @@ static struct zswap_pool *zswap_pool_create(char *type, char *compressor)
 	/* being the current pool takes 1 ref; this func expects the
 	 * caller to always add the new pool as the current pool
 	 */
-	kref_init(&pool->kref);
+	ret = percpu_ref_init(&pool->ref, __zswap_pool_empty,
+			      PERCPU_REF_ALLOW_REINIT, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (ret)
+		goto ref_fail;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pool->list);
 
 	zswap_pool_debug("created", pool);
 
 	return pool;
 
+ref_fail:
+	cpuhp_state_remove_instance(CPUHP_MM_ZSWP_POOL_PREPARE, &pool->node);
 error:
 	if (pool->acomp_ctx)
 		free_percpu(pool->acomp_ctx);
@@ -436,8 +442,9 @@ static void __zswap_pool_release(struct work_struct *work)
 
 	synchronize_rcu();
 
-	/* nobody should have been able to get a kref... */
-	WARN_ON(kref_get_unless_zero(&pool->kref));
+	/* nobody should have been able to get a ref... */
+	WARN_ON(percpu_ref_tryget(&pool->ref));
+	percpu_ref_exit(&pool->ref);
 
 	/* pool is now off zswap_pools list and has no references. */
 	zswap_pool_destroy(pool);
@@ -445,11 +452,11 @@ static void __zswap_pool_release(struct work_struct *work)
 
 static struct zswap_pool *zswap_pool_current(void);
 
-static void __zswap_pool_empty(struct kref *kref)
+static void __zswap_pool_empty(struct percpu_ref *ref)
 {
 	struct zswap_pool *pool;
 
-	pool = container_of(kref, typeof(*pool), kref);
+	pool = container_of(ref, typeof(*pool), ref);
 
 	spin_lock(&zswap_pools_lock);
 
@@ -468,12 +475,12 @@ static int __must_check zswap_pool_get(struct zswap_pool *pool)
 	if (!pool)
 		return 0;
 
-	return kref_get_unless_zero(&pool->kref);
+	return percpu_ref_tryget(&pool->ref);
 }
 
 static void zswap_pool_put(struct zswap_pool *pool)
 {
-	kref_put(&pool->kref, __zswap_pool_empty);
+	percpu_ref_put(&pool->ref);
 }
 
 static struct zswap_pool *__zswap_pool_current(void)
@@ -603,6 +610,12 @@ static int __zswap_param_set(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp,
 
 	if (!pool)
 		pool = zswap_pool_create(type, compressor);
+	else {
+		/* Resurrect percpu_ref to percpu mode. */
+		percpu_ref_resurrect(&pool->ref);
+		/* Drop the ref from zswap_pool_find_get(). */
+		zswap_pool_put(pool);
+	}
 
 	if (pool)
 		ret = param_set_charp(s, kp);
@@ -641,7 +654,7 @@ static int __zswap_param_set(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp,
 	 * or the new pool we failed to add
 	 */
 	if (put_pool)
-		zswap_pool_put(put_pool);
+		percpu_ref_kill(&put_pool->ref);
 
 	return ret;
 }

-- 
b4 0.10.1