Re: [PATCH v3 08/13] mm: zswap: acomp_ctx mutex lock/unlock optimizations.

Yosry Ahmed
2024-11-08T20:15:02Z

On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 11:21 AM Kanchana P Sridhar
<kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com> wrote:
>
> This patch implements two changes with respect to the acomp_ctx mutex lock:

The commit subject is misleading, one of these is definitely not an
optimization.

Also, if we are doing two unrelated things we should do them in two
separate commits.

>
> 1) The mutex lock is not acquired/released in zswap_compress(). Instead,
> zswap_store() acquires the mutex lock once before compressing each page
> in a large folio, and releases the lock once all pages in the folio have
> been compressed. This should reduce some compute cycles in case of large
> folio stores.

I understand how bouncing the mutex around can regress performance,
but I expect this to be more due to things like cacheline bouncing and
allowing reclaim to make meaningful progress before giving up the
mutex, rather than the actual cycles spent acquiring the mutex.

Do you have any numbers to support that this is a net improvement? We
usually base optimizations on data.

> 2) In zswap_decompress(), the mutex lock is released after the conditional
> zpool_unmap_handle() based on "src != acomp_ctx->buffer" rather than
> before. This ensures that the value of "src" obtained earlier does not
> change. If the mutex lock is released before the comparison of "src" it
> is possible that another call to reclaim by the same process could
> obtain the mutex lock and over-write the value of "src".

This seems like a bug fix for 9c500835f279 ("mm: zswap: fix kernel BUG
in sg_init_one"). That commit changed checking acomp_ctx->is_sleepable
outside the mutex, which seems to be safe, to checking
acomp_ctx->buffer.

If my understanding is correct, this needs to be sent separately as a
hotfix, with a proper Fixes tag and CC stable. The side effect would
be that we never unmap the zpool handle and essentially leak the
memory, right?

>
> Signed-off-by: Kanchana P Sridhar <kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com>
> ---
> mm/zswap.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
> index f6316b66fb23..3e899fa61445 100644
> --- a/mm/zswap.c
> +++ b/mm/zswap.c
> @@ -880,6 +880,9 @@ static int zswap_cpu_comp_dead(unsigned int cpu, struct hlist_node *node)
> return 0;
> }
>
> +/*
> + * The acomp_ctx->mutex must be locked/unlocked in the calling procedure.
> + */
> static bool zswap_compress(struct page *page, struct zswap_entry *entry,
> struct zswap_pool *pool)
> {
> @@ -895,8 +898,6 @@ static bool zswap_compress(struct page *page, struct zswap_entry *entry,
>
> acomp_ctx = raw_cpu_ptr(pool->acomp_ctx);
>
> - mutex_lock(&acomp_ctx->mutex);
> -
> dst = acomp_ctx->buffer;
> sg_init_table(&input, 1);
> sg_set_page(&input, page, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
> @@ -949,7 +950,6 @@ static bool zswap_compress(struct page *page, struct zswap_entry *entry,
> else if (alloc_ret)
> zswap_reject_alloc_fail++;
>
> - mutex_unlock(&acomp_ctx->mutex);
> return comp_ret == 0 && alloc_ret == 0;
> }
>
> @@ -986,10 +986,16 @@ static void zswap_decompress(struct zswap_entry *entry, struct folio *folio)
> acomp_request_set_params(acomp_ctx->req, &input, &output, entry->length, PAGE_SIZE);
> BUG_ON(crypto_wait_req(crypto_acomp_decompress(acomp_ctx->req), &acomp_ctx->wait));
> BUG_ON(acomp_ctx->req->dlen != PAGE_SIZE);
> - mutex_unlock(&acomp_ctx->mutex);
>
> if (src != acomp_ctx->buffer)
> zpool_unmap_handle(zpool, entry->handle);
> +
> + /*
> + * It is safer to unlock the mutex after the check for
> + * "src != acomp_ctx->buffer" so that the value of "src"
> + * does not change.
> + */

This comment is unnecessary, we should only release the lock after we
are done accessing protected fields.

> + mutex_unlock(&acomp_ctx->mutex);
> }
>
> /*********************************
> @@ -1487,6 +1493,7 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio)
> {
> long nr_pages = folio_nr_pages(folio);
> swp_entry_t swp = folio->swap;
> + struct crypto_acomp_ctx *acomp_ctx;
> struct obj_cgroup *objcg = NULL;
> struct mem_cgroup *memcg = NULL;
> struct zswap_pool *pool;
> @@ -1526,6 +1533,9 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio)
> mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
> }
>
> + acomp_ctx = raw_cpu_ptr(pool->acomp_ctx);
> + mutex_lock(&acomp_ctx->mutex);
> +
> for (index = 0; index < nr_pages; ++index) {
> struct page *page = folio_page(folio, index);
> ssize_t bytes;
> @@ -1547,6 +1557,7 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio)
> ret = true;
>
> put_pool:
> + mutex_unlock(&acomp_ctx->mutex);
> zswap_pool_put(pool);
> put_objcg:
> obj_cgroup_put(objcg);
> --
> 2.27.0
>