From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Minchan Kim Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] mm: zswap: add basic meminfo and vmstat coverage Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 15:12:17 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20220427160016.144237-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org> <20220427160016.144237-5-hannes@cmpxchg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-disposition:in-reply-to; bh=XXb42XiH+ukC9z7j3bBup8sRRl4KaGc4g7+LlMYSHsA=; b=Ws495q2rl2PRGj/zVnW5ZArxK3DYt6X/R641/Rg4daUGK5XREH0QoEi3vo4dOrnylv nP3eMrTlYZWHRUyOoBu/xrKPZ2+lmrhsSlg9egRevjW/NgcxcSBcwPi27LwUCBj6owub kcJkjnYF1BYOUc2SQz1i21KiLaGf3zKZxIK9Ff5IoHm/vhFuwWVc1xa15T7n334wy8Xf fMRPixKczaNFkniv3DoL5k3q+7DL86Pig/zQIONH8YyaTzxbDMqHdPA16yAu/5RKeusa dOse573kLTyhajewwEJzfifVdlrEfSxKvsC87iTJ29vMlS+9nttNB572LQsHcf9BbcKF zD+Q== Sender: Minchan Kim Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Johannes Weiner Cc: Andrew Morton , Michal Hocko , Roman Gushchin , Shakeel Butt , Seth Jennings , Dan Streetman , linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, cgroups-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, kernel-team-b10kYP2dOMg@public.gmane.org On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 05:36:26PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 05:20:31PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 01:29:34PM -0700, Minchan Kim wrote: > > > Hi Johannes, > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 12:00:15PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote: > > > > Currently it requires poking at debugfs to figure out the size and > > > > population of the zswap cache on a host. There are no counters for > > > > reads and writes against the cache. As a result, it's difficult to > > > > understand zswap behavior on production systems. > > > > > > > > Print zswap memory consumption and how many pages are zswapped out in > > > > /proc/meminfo. Count zswapouts and zswapins in /proc/vmstat. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner > > > > --- > > > > fs/proc/meminfo.c | 7 +++++++ > > > > include/linux/swap.h | 5 +++++ > > > > include/linux/vm_event_item.h | 4 ++++ > > > > mm/vmstat.c | 4 ++++ > > > > mm/zswap.c | 13 ++++++------- > > > > 5 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > > > > > > > diff --git a/fs/proc/meminfo.c b/fs/proc/meminfo.c > > > > index 6fa761c9cc78..6e89f0e2fd20 100644 > > > > --- a/fs/proc/meminfo.c > > > > +++ b/fs/proc/meminfo.c > > > > @@ -86,6 +86,13 @@ static int meminfo_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v) > > > > > > > > show_val_kb(m, "SwapTotal: ", i.totalswap); > > > > show_val_kb(m, "SwapFree: ", i.freeswap); > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_ZSWAP > > > > + seq_printf(m, "Zswap: %8lu kB\n", > > > > + (unsigned long)(zswap_pool_total_size >> 10)); > > > > + seq_printf(m, "Zswapped: %8lu kB\n", > > > > + (unsigned long)atomic_read(&zswap_stored_pages) << > > > > + (PAGE_SHIFT - 10)); > > > > +#endif > > > > > > I agree it would be very handy to have the memory consumption in meminfo > > > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/YYwZXrL3Fu8%2FvLZw-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org/ > > > > > > If we really go this Zswap only metric instead of general term > > > "Compressed", I'd like to post maybe "Zram:" with same reason > > > in this patchset. Do you think that's better idea instead of > > > introducing general term like "Compressed:" or something else? > > > > I'm fine with changing it to Compressed. If somebody cares about a > > more detailed breakdown, we can add Zswap, Zram subsets as needed. > > It does raise the question what to do about cgroup, though. Should the > control files (memory.zswap.current & memory.zswap.max) apply to zram > in the future? If so, we should rename them, too. > > I'm not too familiar with zram, maybe you can provide some > background. AFAIU, Google uses zram quite widely; all the more > confusing why there is no container support for it yet. My usecase with zram is Android which doesn't use memcg.