[PATCH v3] zram: extend zero pages to same element pages

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Sun Jan 22 2017 - 21:00:20 EST


From: zhouxianrong <zhouxianrong@xxxxxxxxxx>

the idea is that without doing more calculations we extend zero pages
to same element pages for zram. zero page is special case of
same element page with zero element.

1. the test is done under android 7.0
2. startup too many applications circularly
3. sample the zero pages, same pages (none-zero element)
and total pages in function page_zero_filled

the result is listed as below:

ZERO SAME TOTAL
36214 17842 598196

ZERO/TOTAL SAME/TOTAL (ZERO+SAME)/TOTAL ZERO/SAME
AVERAGE 0.060631909 0.024990816 0.085622726 2.663825038
STDEV 0.00674612 0.005887625 0.009707034 2.115881328
MAX 0.069698422 0.030046087 0.094975336 7.56043956
MIN 0.03959586 0.007332205 0.056055193 1.928985507

from above data, the benefit is about 2.5% and up to 3% of total
swapout pages.

the defect of the patch is that when we recovery a page from
non-zero element the operations are low efficient for partial
read.

This patch extend zero_page to same_page so if there is any user to have
monitored zero_pages, he will be surprised if the number is increased
but it's no harmful, I believe.

Signed-off-by: zhouxianrong <zhouxianrong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
I removed zram_set_page_partial because I think block layer works with
IO size unit which would be aligned (unsigned long) at least, maybe
SECTOR or PAGE size. Then, we can merge both zram_set_page and
zram_set_page_partial.

Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt | 6 ++--
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h | 9 +++--
3 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
index 1c0c08d..4fced8a 100644
--- a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
+++ b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
@@ -201,8 +201,8 @@ File /sys/block/zram<id>/mm_stat
The stat file represents device's mm statistics. It consists of a single
line of text and contains the following stats separated by whitespace:
orig_data_size uncompressed size of data stored in this disk.
- This excludes zero-filled pages (zero_pages) since no
- memory is allocated for them.
+ This excludes same-element-filled pages (same_pages) since
+ no memory is allocated for them.
Unit: bytes
compr_data_size compressed size of data stored in this disk
mem_used_total the amount of memory allocated for this disk. This
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ The stat file represents device's mm statistics. It consists of a single
the compressed data
mem_used_max the maximum amount of memory zram have consumed to
store the data
- zero_pages the number of zero filled pages written to this disk.
+ same_pages the number of same element filled pages written to this disk.
No memory is allocated for such pages.
pages_compacted the number of pages freed during compaction

diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
index 85737b6..46da1c4 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -74,6 +74,17 @@ static void zram_clear_flag(struct zram_meta *meta, u32 index,
meta->table[index].value &= ~BIT(flag);
}

+static inline void zram_set_element(struct zram_meta *meta, u32 index,
+ unsigned long element)
+{
+ meta->table[index].element = element;
+}
+
+static inline void zram_clear_element(struct zram_meta *meta, u32 index)
+{
+ meta->table[index].element = 0;
+}
+
static size_t zram_get_obj_size(struct zram_meta *meta, u32 index)
{
return meta->table[index].value & (BIT(ZRAM_FLAG_SHIFT) - 1);
@@ -146,31 +157,43 @@ static inline void update_used_max(struct zram *zram,
} while (old_max != cur_max);
}

-static bool page_zero_filled(void *ptr)
+static inline void zram_fill_page(char *ptr, unsigned long value)
+{
+ int i;
+ unsigned long *page = (unsigned long *)ptr;
+
+ if (likely(value == 0)) {
+ clear_page(ptr);
+ } else {
+ for (i = PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(unsigned long) - 1; i >= 0; i--)
+ page[i] = value;
+ }
+}
+
+static bool page_same_filled(void *ptr, unsigned long *element)
{
unsigned int pos;
unsigned long *page;

page = (unsigned long *)ptr;

- for (pos = 0; pos != PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(*page); pos++) {
- if (page[pos])
+ for (pos = PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(unsigned long) - 1; pos > 0; pos--) {
+ if (page[pos] != page[pos - 1])
return false;
}

+ *element = page[pos];
+
return true;
}

-static void handle_zero_page(struct bio_vec *bvec)
+static void handle_same_page(struct bio_vec *bvec, unsigned long element)
{
struct page *page = bvec->bv_page;
void *user_mem;

user_mem = kmap_atomic(page);
- if (is_partial_io(bvec))
- memset(user_mem + bvec->bv_offset, 0, bvec->bv_len);
- else
- clear_page(user_mem);
+ zram_fill_page(user_mem + bvec->bv_offset, bvec->bv_len, element);
kunmap_atomic(user_mem);

flush_dcache_page(page);
@@ -363,7 +386,7 @@ static ssize_t mm_stat_show(struct device *dev,
mem_used << PAGE_SHIFT,
zram->limit_pages << PAGE_SHIFT,
max_used << PAGE_SHIFT,
- (u64)atomic64_read(&zram->stats.zero_pages),
+ (u64)atomic64_read(&zram->stats.same_pages),
pool_stats.pages_compacted);
up_read(&zram->init_lock);

@@ -462,18 +485,20 @@ static void zram_free_page(struct zram *zram, size_t index)
struct zram_meta *meta = zram->meta;
unsigned long handle = meta->table[index].handle;

- if (unlikely(!handle)) {
- /*
- * No memory is allocated for zero filled pages.
- * Simply clear zero page flag.
- */
- if (zram_test_flag(meta, index, ZRAM_ZERO)) {
- zram_clear_flag(meta, index, ZRAM_ZERO);
- atomic64_dec(&zram->stats.zero_pages);
- }
+ /*
+ * No memory is allocated for same element filled pages.
+ * Simply clear same page flag.
+ */
+ if (zram_test_flag(meta, index, ZRAM_SAME)) {
+ zram_clear_flag(meta, index, ZRAM_SAME);
+ zram_clear_element(meta, index);
+ atomic64_dec(&zram->stats.same_pages);
return;
}

+ if (!handle)
+ return;
+
zs_free(meta->mem_pool, handle);

atomic64_sub(zram_get_obj_size(meta, index),
@@ -496,9 +521,9 @@ static int zram_decompress_page(struct zram *zram, char *mem, u32 index)
handle = meta->table[index].handle;
size = zram_get_obj_size(meta, index);

- if (!handle || zram_test_flag(meta, index, ZRAM_ZERO)) {
+ if (!handle || zram_test_flag(meta, index, ZRAM_SAME)) {
bit_spin_unlock(ZRAM_ACCESS, &meta->table[index].value);
- clear_page(mem);
+ zram_fill_page(mem, meta->table[index].element);
return 0;
}

@@ -534,9 +559,9 @@ static int zram_bvec_read(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec,

bit_spin_lock(ZRAM_ACCESS, &meta->table[index].value);
if (unlikely(!meta->table[index].handle) ||
- zram_test_flag(meta, index, ZRAM_ZERO)) {
+ zram_test_flag(meta, index, ZRAM_SAME)) {
bit_spin_unlock(ZRAM_ACCESS, &meta->table[index].value);
- handle_zero_page(bvec);
+ handle_same_page(bvec, meta->table[index].element);
return 0;
}
bit_spin_unlock(ZRAM_ACCESS, &meta->table[index].value);
@@ -584,6 +609,7 @@ static int zram_bvec_write(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec, u32 index,
struct zram_meta *meta = zram->meta;
struct zcomp_strm *zstrm = NULL;
unsigned long alloced_pages;
+ unsigned long element;

page = bvec->bv_page;
if (is_partial_io(bvec)) {
@@ -612,16 +638,17 @@ static int zram_bvec_write(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec, u32 index,
uncmem = user_mem;
}

- if (page_zero_filled(uncmem)) {
+ if (page_same_filled(uncmem, &element)) {
if (user_mem)
kunmap_atomic(user_mem);
/* Free memory associated with this sector now. */
bit_spin_lock(ZRAM_ACCESS, &meta->table[index].value);
zram_free_page(zram, index);
- zram_set_flag(meta, index, ZRAM_ZERO);
+ zram_set_flag(meta, index, ZRAM_SAME);
+ zram_set_element(meta, index, element);
bit_spin_unlock(ZRAM_ACCESS, &meta->table[index].value);

- atomic64_inc(&zram->stats.zero_pages);
+ atomic64_inc(&zram->stats.same_pages);
ret = 0;
goto out;
}
diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
index 74fcf10..5725d24 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ static const size_t max_zpage_size = PAGE_SIZE / 4 * 3;
/* Flags for zram pages (table[page_no].value) */
enum zram_pageflags {
/* Page consists entirely of zeros */
- ZRAM_ZERO = ZRAM_FLAG_SHIFT,
+ ZRAM_SAME = ZRAM_FLAG_SHIFT,
ZRAM_ACCESS, /* page is now accessed */

__NR_ZRAM_PAGEFLAGS,
@@ -71,7 +71,10 @@ enum zram_pageflags {

/* Allocated for each disk page */
struct zram_table_entry {
- unsigned long handle;
+ union {
+ unsigned long handle;
+ unsigned long element;
+ };
unsigned long value;
};

@@ -83,7 +86,7 @@ struct zram_stats {
atomic64_t failed_writes; /* can happen when memory is too low */
atomic64_t invalid_io; /* non-page-aligned I/O requests */
atomic64_t notify_free; /* no. of swap slot free notifications */
- atomic64_t zero_pages; /* no. of zero filled pages */
+ atomic64_t same_pages; /* no. of same element filled pages */
atomic64_t pages_stored; /* no. of pages currently stored */
atomic_long_t max_used_pages; /* no. of maximum pages stored */
atomic64_t writestall; /* no. of write slow paths */
--
2.7.4