RE: [PATCH v8 13/14] mm: zswap: Allocate pool batching resources if the compressor supports batching.

Sridhar, Kanchana P
2025-04-30T21:15:45Z

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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 13/14] mm: zswap: Allocate pool batching resources if
> the compressor supports batching.
>
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 12:47:23AM -0800, Kanchana P Sridhar wrote:
> > This patch adds support for the per-CPU acomp_ctx to track multiple
> > compression/decompression requests and multiple compression destination
> > buffers. The zswap_cpu_comp_prepare() CPU onlining code will get the
> > maximum batch-size the compressor supports. If so, it will allocate the
> > necessary batching resources.
> >
> > However, zswap does not use more than one request yet. Follow-up
> patches
> > will actually utilize the multiple acomp_ctx requests/buffers for batch
> > compression/decompression of multiple pages.
> >
> > The newly added ZSWAP_MAX_BATCH_SIZE limits the amount of extra
> memory used
> > for batching. There is a small extra memory overhead of allocating the
> > "reqs" and "buffers" arrays for compressors that do not support batching.
>
> That's two pointers per-CPU (i.e. 16 bytes on x86_64), right? Please
> call that out in the commit log.

Yes, this is done.

Thanks,
Kanchana

>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kanchana P Sridhar <kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com>
> > ---
> > mm/zswap.c | 99 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> ----
> > 1 file changed, 69 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
> > index cff96df1df8b..fae59d6d5147 100644
> > --- a/mm/zswap.c
> > +++ b/mm/zswap.c
> > @@ -78,6 +78,16 @@ static bool zswap_pool_reached_full;
> >
> > #define ZSWAP_PARAM_UNSET ""
> >
> > +/*
> > + * For compression batching of large folios:
> > + * Maximum number of acomp compress requests that will be processed
> > + * in a batch, iff the zswap compressor supports batching.
> > + * This limit exists because we preallocate enough requests and buffers
> > + * in the per-cpu acomp_ctx accordingly. Hence, a higher limit means
> higher
> > + * memory usage.
> > + */
>
> That's too verbose. Let's do something like:
>
> /* Limit the batch size to limit per-CPU memory usage for reqs and buffers */
> #define ZSWAP_MAX_BATCH_SIZE 8U

Addressed in v9.

>
> > +#define ZSWAP_MAX_BATCH_SIZE 8U
> > +
> > static int zswap_setup(void);
> >
> > /* Enable/disable zswap */
> > @@ -143,8 +153,8 @@ bool zswap_never_enabled(void)
> >
> > struct crypto_acomp_ctx {
> > struct crypto_acomp *acomp;
> > - struct acomp_req *req;
> > - u8 *buffer;
> > + struct acomp_req **reqs;
> > + u8 **buffers;
> > u8 nr_reqs;
> > struct crypto_wait wait;
> > struct mutex mutex;
> > @@ -251,13 +261,22 @@ static void __zswap_pool_empty(struct
> percpu_ref *ref);
> > static void acomp_ctx_dealloc(struct crypto_acomp_ctx *acomp_ctx)
> > {
> > if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(acomp_ctx) && acomp_ctx->nr_reqs) {
> > + u8 i;
> > +
> > + if (acomp_ctx->reqs) {
> > + for (i = 0; i < acomp_ctx->nr_reqs; ++i)
> > + if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(acomp_ctx->reqs[i]))
>
> Hmm I just realized we check IS_ERR_OR_NULL() here for the requests, but
> only a NULL check in zswap_cpu_comp_prepare(). We also check
> IS_ERR_OR_NULL here for acomp, but only IS_ERR() in
> zswap_cpu_comp_prepare().
>
> This doesn't make sense. Would you be able to include a patch before
> this one to make these consistent? I can also send a follow up patch.

No worries, I have included this as patch 16 in the v9 series.

>
> > + acomp_request_free(acomp_ctx-
> >reqs[i]);
>
> Please add braces for the for loop here for readability, since the body
> has more than one line, even if it's technically not required.

Done.

>
> > + kfree(acomp_ctx->reqs);
> > + acomp_ctx->reqs = NULL;
> > + }
> >
> > - if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(acomp_ctx->req))
> > - acomp_request_free(acomp_ctx->req);
> > - acomp_ctx->req = NULL;
> > -
> > - kfree(acomp_ctx->buffer);
> > - acomp_ctx->buffer = NULL;
> > + if (acomp_ctx->buffers) {
> > + for (i = 0; i < acomp_ctx->nr_reqs; ++i)
> > + kfree(acomp_ctx->buffers[i]);
> > + kfree(acomp_ctx->buffers);
> > + acomp_ctx->buffers = NULL;
> > + }
> >
> > if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(acomp_ctx->acomp))
> > crypto_free_acomp(acomp_ctx->acomp);
> > @@ -271,6 +290,7 @@ static int zswap_cpu_comp_prepare(unsigned int
> cpu, struct hlist_node *node)
> > struct zswap_pool *pool = hlist_entry(node, struct zswap_pool,
> node);
> > struct crypto_acomp_ctx *acomp_ctx = per_cpu_ptr(pool-
> >acomp_ctx, cpu);
> > int ret = -ENOMEM;
> > + u8 i;
> >
> > /*
> > * Just to be even more fail-safe against changes in assumptions
> and/or
> > @@ -292,22 +312,41 @@ static int zswap_cpu_comp_prepare(unsigned int
> cpu, struct hlist_node *node)
> > goto fail;
> > }
> >
> > - acomp_ctx->nr_reqs = 1;
> > + acomp_ctx->nr_reqs = min(ZSWAP_MAX_BATCH_SIZE,
> > + crypto_acomp_batch_size(acomp_ctx-
> >acomp));
> >
> > - acomp_ctx->req = acomp_request_alloc(acomp_ctx->acomp);
> > - if (!acomp_ctx->req) {
> > - pr_err("could not alloc crypto acomp_request %s\n",
> > - pool->tfm_name);
> > - ret = -ENOMEM;
> > + acomp_ctx->reqs = kcalloc_node(acomp_ctx->nr_reqs, sizeof(struct
> acomp_req *),
> > + GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
> > + if (!acomp_ctx->reqs)
> > goto fail;
> > +
> > + for (i = 0; i < acomp_ctx->nr_reqs; ++i) {
> > + acomp_ctx->reqs[i] = acomp_request_alloc(acomp_ctx-
> >acomp);
> > + if (!acomp_ctx->reqs[i]) {
> > + pr_err("could not alloc crypto acomp_request
> reqs[%d] %s\n",
> > + i, pool->tfm_name);
> > + goto fail;
> > + }
> > }
> >
> > - acomp_ctx->buffer = kmalloc_node(PAGE_SIZE * 2, GFP_KERNEL,
> cpu_to_node(cpu));
> > - if (!acomp_ctx->buffer) {
> > - ret = -ENOMEM;
> > + acomp_ctx->buffers = kcalloc_node(acomp_ctx->nr_reqs, sizeof(u8
> *),
> > + GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
> > + if (!acomp_ctx->buffers)
> > goto fail;
> > +
> > + for (i = 0; i < acomp_ctx->nr_reqs; ++i) {
> > + acomp_ctx->buffers[i] = kmalloc_node(PAGE_SIZE * 2,
> GFP_KERNEL,
> > + cpu_to_node(cpu));
> > + if (!acomp_ctx->buffers[i])
> > + goto fail;
> > }
> >
> > + /*
> > + * The crypto_wait is used only in fully synchronous, i.e., with scomp
> > + * or non-poll mode of acomp, hence there is only one "wait" per
> > + * acomp_ctx, with callback set to reqs[0], under the assumption that
> > + * there is at least 1 request per acomp_ctx.
> > + */
>
> I am not sure I understand. Does this say that we assume that scomp or
> non-poll acomp will never use batching so having a single "wait" is
> fine?
>
> If so, this needs to be enforced at runtime or at least have a warning,
> and not just mentioned in a comment, in case batching support is ever
> added for these. Please clarify.

This was pertaining to the request chaining batching implementation and
is no longer relevant. I have deleted this comment in v9, in which
crypto_acomp_batch_[de]compress() do not take a "struct crypto_wait"
parameter.

>
> We should also probably merge the comments above crypto_init_wait() and
> acomp_request_set_callback() now.

Done, and clarified the use of the single "wait" in zswap calls to
crypto_acomp_[de]compress().

Thanks,
Kanchana

>
> > crypto_init_wait(&acomp_ctx->wait);
> >
> > /*