From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx129.postini.com [74.125.245.129]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E66FD6B0006 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 06:09:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from /spool/local by e23smtp08.au.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:07:02 +1000 Received: from d23relay05.au.ibm.com (d23relay05.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.152]) by d23dlp02.au.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FB4C2BB0053 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:08:55 +1100 (EST) Received: from d23av02.au.ibm.com (d23av02.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.138]) by d23relay05.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id r2E9txHw61931568 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:56:00 +1100 Received: from d23av02.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av02.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id r2EA8rqD025890 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:08:53 +1100 From: Wanpeng Li Subject: [PATCH v2 0/4] zcache: Support zero-filled pages more efficiently Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:08:13 +0800 Message-Id: <1363255697-19674-1-git-send-email-liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andrew Morton Cc: Dan Magenheimer , Seth Jennings , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Minchan Kim , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Wanpeng Li Changelog: v1 -> v2: * avoid changing tmem.[ch] entirely, spotted by Dan. * don't accumulate [eph|pers]pageframe and [eph|pers]zpages for zero-filled pages, spotted by Dan * cleanup TODO list * add Dan Acked-by. Motivation: - Seth Jennings points out compress zero-filled pages with LZO(a lossless data compression algorithm) will waste memory and result in fragmentation. https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/14/347 - Dan Magenheimer add "Support zero-filled pages more efficiently" feature in zcache TODO list https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/13/503 Design: - For store page, capture zero-filled pages(evicted clean page cache pages and swap pages), but don't compress them, set pampd which store zpage address to 0x2(since 0x0 and 0x1 has already been ocuppied) to mark special zero-filled case and take advantage of tmem infrastructure to transform handle-tuple(pool id, object id, and an index) to a pampd. Twice compress zero-filled pages will contribute to one zcache_[eph|pers]_pageframes count accumulated. - For load page, traverse tmem hierachical to transform handle-tuple to pampd and identify zero-filled case by pampd equal to 0x2 when filesystem reads file pages or a page needs to be swapped in, then refill the page to zero and return. Test: dd if=/dev/zero of=zerofile bs=1MB count=500 vmtouch -t zerofile vmtouch -e zerofile formula: - fragmentation level = (zcache_[eph|pers]_pageframes * PAGE_SIZE - zcache_[eph|pers]_zbytes) * 100 / (zcache_[eph|pers]_pageframes * PAGE_SIZE) - memory zcache occupy = zcache_[eph|pers]_zbytes Result: without zero-filled awareness: - fragmentation level: 98% - memory zcache occupy: 238MB with zero-filled awareness: - fragmentation level: 0% - memory zcache occupy: 0MB Wanpeng Li (4): introduce zero-filled pages handler zero-filled pages awareness introduce zero-filled pages stat count clean TODO list drivers/staging/zcache/TODO | 3 +- drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c | 119 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) -- 1.7.7.6 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org