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Currently, a (low priority) Writer that > > holds the stream mutex can be preempted by a (higher priority) Reader > > on the same CPU, which then blocks on that mutex until the Writer gets > > to run again and releases it, which can take a long time when there > > are other runnable tasks on that CPU. The good news is that Read and > > Write contexts are completely independent - compression uses its own > > scratch buffer that decompression never touches, and decompression > > uses its own local buffer (for spanning zsmalloc objects) that > > compression never touches, so the Read/Write context split doesn't > > noticeably increase memory usage. In addition many S/W backends have > > stateless decompression contexts. > > > > A quick synthetic fio test for Writer vs Reader inversion on 24 CPUs > > (preempt=full, zstd, 48 low priority (nice 19) writers, 24 normal > > priority (nice 0) CPU hogs and 24 high priority (nice -19) readers): > > > > Metric Base Patched > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Read IOPS 207k 1,150k (+5.6x) > > Read clat avg 101.50 us 7.76 us (-13.1x) > > Read clat stdev 5,615.90 us 30.78 us (-182x) > > Read clat p99.99 258,998 us 111.10 us (-2331x) > > Read clat max 1,342,600 us 11,217 us (-120x) > > These results are awesome and thanks for exploring other options. I > agree this sounds like a great path forward. > > > > > Suggested-by: Barry Song > > Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky > > Acked-by: Brian Geffon Thank you, sir!