Re: [PATCH v2 0/4]zram: locking redesign

[Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>]

On 01/15/2014 02:11 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Currently, zram->lock rw_semaphore is coarse-grained so it hurts
> for scalability.
> This patch try to enhance it with remove the lock in read path.
> 
> [1] uses atomic opeartion so it removes dependency of 32bit stat
> from zram->lock.
> [2] introduces table own lock instead of relying on zram->lock.
> [3] remove free pending slot mess so it makes core very clean.
> [4] finally removes zram->lock in read path and changes it with mutex.
> 
> So, output is wonderful. read/write mixed workload performs well
> 11 times than old and write concurrency is also enhanced because
> mutex supports SPIN_ON_OWNER while rw_semaphore doesn't yet.
> (I know recenty there were some effort to enhance it for rw_semaphore
> from Tim Chen but not sure it got merged. Anyway, we don't need it
> any more and there is no reason to prevent read-write concurrency)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Minchan Kim (4):
>   [1] zram: use atomic operation for stat
>   [2] zram: introduce zram->tb_lock
>   [3] zram: remove workqueue for freeing removed pending slot
>   [4] zram: Remove zram->lock in read path and change it with mutex
> 
>  drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c | 117 ++++++++++++++++------------------------
>  drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h |  27 +++-------
>  2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)
> 

The new locking scheme seems sound to me.

Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>