Re: [PATCHv4 4/9] zram: Introduce recompress sysfs knob

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Fri Nov 04 2022 - 03:53:27 EST


On (22/11/03 10:00), Minchan Kim wrote:
> zram->table[index].flags
>
> If we squeeze the algorithm index, we could work like this
> without ZRAM_RECOMP_SKIP.

Something like this?

Allocate two ->flags bits for priority and one bit for RECOMP_SKIP.
Two priority bits let us to have 3 alternative algorithms (01 10 11)
plus one default (00). So 4 in total.

---
diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
index 12f03745baf9..af0ff58087ca 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -127,6 +127,19 @@ static size_t zram_get_obj_size(struct zram *zram, u32 index)
return zram->table[index].flags & (BIT(ZRAM_FLAG_SHIFT) - 1);
}

+static inline void zram_set_priority(struct zram *zram, u32 index, u32 prio)
+{
+ prio &= ZRAM_COMP_PRIORITY_MASK;
+ zram->table[index].flags &= (prio << ZRAM_COMP_PRIORITY_1);
+}
+
+static inline u32 zram_get_priority(struct zram *zram, u32 index)
+{
+ u32 prio = zram->table[index].flags;
+
+ return prio & ZRAM_COMP_PRIORITY_MASK;
+}
+
static void zram_set_obj_size(struct zram *zram,
u32 index, size_t size)
{
diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
index bdfc9bf0bdd5..33e52c5a9a90 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@
*/
#define ZRAM_FLAG_SHIFT (PAGE_SHIFT + 1)

+#define ZRAM_COMP_PRIORITY_MASK 0x3
+
/* Flags for zram pages (table[page_no].flags) */
enum zram_pageflags {
/* zram slot is locked */
@@ -49,8 +51,9 @@ enum zram_pageflags {
ZRAM_UNDER_WB, /* page is under writeback */
ZRAM_HUGE, /* Incompressible page */
ZRAM_IDLE, /* not accessed page since last idle marking */
- ZRAM_RECOMP, /* page was recompressed */
ZRAM_RECOMP_SKIP, /* secondary algorithm cannot compress this page */
+ ZRAM_COMP_PRIORITY_1,
+ ZRAM_COMP_PRIORITY_2,

__NR_ZRAM_PAGEFLAGS,
};