There is a race in the current z3fold implementation between
do_compact() called in a work queue context and the page release
procedure when page's kref goes to 0.
do_compact() may be waiting for page lock, which is released by
release_z3fold_page_locked right before putting the page onto the
"stale" list, and then the page may be freed as do_compact() modifies
its contents.
The mechanism currently implemented to handle that (checking the
PAGE_STALE flag) is not reliable enough. Instead, we'll use page's kref
counter to guarantee that the page is not released if its compaction is
scheduled. It then becomes compaction function's responsibility to
decrease the counter and quit immediately if the page was actually
freed.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171117092032.00ea56f42affbed19f4fcc6c@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@sonymobile.com>
Cc: <Oleksiy.Avramchenko@sony.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix the situation when clear_bit() is called for page->private before
the page pointer is actually assigned. While at it, remove work_busy()
check because it is costly and does not give 100% guarantee anyway.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: <Oleksiy.Avramchenko@sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It is possible that on a (partially) unsuccessful page reclaim,
kref_put() called in z3fold_reclaim_page() does not yield page release,
but the page is released shortly afterwards by another thread. Then
z3fold_reclaim_page() would try to list_add() that (released) page again
which is obviously a bug.
To avoid that, spin_lock() has to be taken earlier, before the
kref_put() call mentioned earlier.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170913162937.bfff21c7d12b12a5f47639fd@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: <Oleksiy.Avramchenko@sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It's been noted that z3fold doesn't scale well when it's run in a large
number of threads on many cores, which can be easily reproduced with fio
'randrw' test with --numjobs=32. E.g. the result for 1 cluster (4 cores)
is:
Run status group 0 (all jobs):
READ: io=244785MB, aggrb=496883KB/s, minb=15527KB/s, ...
WRITE: io=246735MB, aggrb=500841KB/s, minb=15651KB/s, ...
While for 8 cores (2 clusters) the result is:
Run status group 0 (all jobs):
READ: io=244785MB, aggrb=265942KB/s, minb=8310KB/s, ...
WRITE: io=246735MB, aggrb=268060KB/s, minb=8376KB/s, ...
The bottleneck here is the pool lock which many threads become waiting
upon. To reduce that spin lock contention, z3fold can operate only on
the lists local to the current CPU whenever possible. Due to the nature
of z3fold unbuddied list handling (it only takes the first entry off the
list on a hot path), if the z3fold pool is big enough and balanced well
enough, limiting search to only local unbuddied list doesn't lead to a
significant compression ratio degrade (2.57x vs 2.65x in our
measurements).
This patch also introduces two worker threads: one for async in-page
object layout optimization and one for releasing freed pages. This is
done to speed up z3fold_free() which is often on a hot path.
The fio results for 8-core case are now the following:
Run status group 0 (all jobs):
READ: io=244785MB, aggrb=1568.3MB/s, minb=50182KB/s, ...
WRITE: io=246735MB, aggrb=1580.8MB/s, minb=50582KB/s, ...
So we're in for almost 6x performance increase.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170806181443.f9b65018f8bde25ef990f9e8@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Stress testing of the current z3fold implementation on a 8-core system
revealed it was possible that a z3fold page deleted from its unbuddied
list in z3fold_alloc() would be put on another unbuddied list by
z3fold_free() while z3fold_alloc() is still processing it. This has
been introduced with commit 5a27aa822 ("z3fold: add kref refcounting")
due to the removal of special handling of a z3fold page not on any list
in z3fold_free().
To fix this, the z3fold page lock should be taken in z3fold_alloc()
before the pool lock is released. To avoid deadlocking, we just try to
lock the page as soon as we get a hold of it, and if trylock fails, we
drop this page and take the next one.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: <Oleksiy.Avramchenko@sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commmit 5a27aa8220 ("z3fold: add kref refcounting") introduced a bug
in z3fold_reclaim_page() with function exit that may leave pool->lock
spinlock held. Here comes the trivial fix.
Fixes: 5a27aa8220 ("z3fold: add kref refcounting")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170311222239.7b83d8e7ef1914e05497649f@gmail.com
Reported-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With both coming and already present locking optimizations, introducing
kref to reference-count z3fold objects is the right thing to do.
Moreover, it makes buddied list no longer necessary, and allows for a
simpler handling of headless pages.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170131214650.8ea78033d91ded233f552bc0@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Most of z3fold operations are in-page, such as modifying z3fold page
header or moving z3fold objects within a page. Taking per-pool spinlock
to protect per-page objects is therefore suboptimal, and the idea of
having a per-page spinlock (or rwlock) has been around for some time.
This patch implements spinlock-based per-page locking mechanism which is
lightweight enough to normally fit ok into the z3fold header.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170131214438.433e0a5fda908337b63206d3@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
z3fold_compact_page() currently only handles the situation when there's
a single middle chunk within the z3fold page. However it may be worth
it to move middle chunk closer to either first or last chunk, whichever
is there, if the gap between them is big enough.
This patch adds the relevant code, using BIG_CHUNK_GAP define as a
threshold for middle chunk to be worth moving.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170131214334.c4f3eac9a477af0fa9a22c46@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently the whole kernel build will be stopped if the size of struct
z3fold_header is greater than the size of one chunk, which is 64 bytes
by default. This patch instead defines the offset for z3fold objects as
the size of the z3fold header in chunks.
Fixed also are the calculation of num_free_chunks() and the address to
move the middle chunk to in case of in-page compaction in
z3fold_compact_page().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170131214057.d98677032bc7b1c6c59a80c9@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
At present, Tying the first_num size to NCHUNKS_ORDER is confusing. the
number of chunks is completely unrelated to the number of buddies.
The patch limits the first_num to actual range of possible buddy indexes.
and that is more reasonable and obvious without functional change.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476776569-29504-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Acked-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Acked-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix erroneous z3fold header access in a HEADLESS page in reclaim
function, and change one remaining direct handle-to-buddy conversion to
use the appropriate helper.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5748706F.9020208@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch introduces z3fold, a special purpose allocator for storing
compressed pages. It is designed to store up to three compressed pages
per physical page. It is a ZBUD derivative which allows for higher
compression ratio keeping the simplicity and determinism of its
predecessor.
This patch comes as a follow-up to the discussions at the Embedded Linux
Conference in San-Diego related to the talk [1]. The outcome of these
discussions was that it would be good to have a compressed page
allocator as stable and deterministic as zbud with with higher
compression ratio.
To keep the determinism and simplicity, z3fold, just like zbud, always
stores an integral number of compressed pages per page, but it can store
up to 3 pages unlike zbud which can store at most 2. Therefore the
compression ratio goes to around 2.6x while zbud's one is around 1.7x.
The patch is based on the latest linux.git tree.
This version has been updated after testing on various simulators (e.g.
ARM Versatile Express, MIPS Malta, x86_64/Haswell) and basing on
comments from Dan Streetman [3].
[1] https://openiotelc2016.sched.org/event/6DAC/swapping-and-embedded-compression-relieves-the-pressure-vitaly-wool-softprise-consulting-ou
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/21/799
[3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/4/852
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160509151753.ec3f9fda3c9898d31ff52a32@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Vitaly Wool