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authorYosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>2024-03-22 03:10:01 +0300
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2024-04-26 06:56:05 +0300
commitcc9bc36ebef70f3437caf712574478d5b95b25d4 (patch)
treeb110c757b0a719496aa16ec8e875851d043bcf05 /mm/zswap.c
parent883dd161e9a83e188487debc562b1928917a4b39 (diff)
downloadlinux-cc9bc36ebef70f3437caf712574478d5b95b25d4.tar.xz
mm: zswap: remove nr_zswap_stored atomic
nr_stored was introduced by commit b5ba474f3f51 ("zswap: shrink zswap pool based on memory pressure") as a per zswap_pool counter of the number of stored pages that are not same-filled pages. It is used in zswap_shrinker_count() to scale the number of freeable compressed pages by the compression ratio. That is, to reduce the amount of writeback from zswap with higher compression ratios as the ROI from IO diminishes. Later on, commit bf9b7df23cb3 ("mm/zswap: global lru and shrinker shared by all zswap_pools") made the shrinker global (not per zswap_pool), and replaced nr_stored with nr_zswap_stored (initially introduced as zswap.nr_stored), which is now a global counter. The counter is now awfully close to zswap_stored_pages. The only difference is that the latter also includes same-filled pages. Also, when memcgs are enabled, we use memcg_page_state(memcg, MEMCG_ZSWAPPED), which includes same-filled pages anyway (i.e. equivalent to zswap_stored_pages). Use zswap_stored_pages instead in zswap_shrinker_count() to keep things consistent whether memcgs are enabled or not, and add a comment about the number of freeable pages possibly being scaled down more than it should if we have lots of same-filled pages (i.e. inflated compression ratio). Remove nr_zswap_stored and one atomic operation in the store and free paths. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240322001001.1562517-1-yosryahmed@google.com Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/zswap.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/zswap.c11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
index e435dc7c043b..01fe081474ff 100644
--- a/mm/zswap.c
+++ b/mm/zswap.c
@@ -181,8 +181,6 @@ struct zswap_pool {
/* Global LRU lists shared by all zswap pools. */
static struct list_lru zswap_list_lru;
-/* counter of pages stored in all zswap pools. */
-static atomic_t zswap_nr_stored = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
/* The lock protects zswap_next_shrink updates. */
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(zswap_shrink_lock);
@@ -885,7 +883,6 @@ static void zswap_entry_free(struct zswap_entry *entry)
else {
zswap_lru_del(&zswap_list_lru, entry);
zpool_free(zswap_find_zpool(entry), entry->handle);
- atomic_dec(&zswap_nr_stored);
zswap_pool_put(entry->pool);
}
if (entry->objcg) {
@@ -1325,7 +1322,7 @@ static unsigned long zswap_shrinker_count(struct shrinker *shrinker,
nr_stored = memcg_page_state(memcg, MEMCG_ZSWAPPED);
} else {
nr_backing = zswap_total_pages();
- nr_stored = atomic_read(&zswap_nr_stored);
+ nr_stored = atomic_read(&zswap_stored_pages);
}
if (!nr_stored)
@@ -1345,6 +1342,11 @@ static unsigned long zswap_shrinker_count(struct shrinker *shrinker,
* This ensures that the better zswap compresses memory, the fewer
* pages we will evict to swap (as it will otherwise incur IO for
* relatively small memory saving).
+ *
+ * The memory saving factor calculated here takes same-filled pages into
+ * account, but those are not freeable since they almost occupy no
+ * space. Hence, we may scale nr_freeable down a little bit more than we
+ * should if we have a lot of same-filled pages.
*/
return mult_frac(nr_freeable, nr_backing, nr_stored);
}
@@ -1590,7 +1592,6 @@ insert_entry:
if (entry->length) {
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&entry->lru);
zswap_lru_add(&zswap_list_lru, entry);
- atomic_inc(&zswap_nr_stored);
}
spin_unlock(&tree->lock);