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Sergey Senozhatsky 010b495e2f zsmalloc: introduce zs_huge_class_size()
Patch series "zsmalloc/zram: drop zram's max_zpage_size", v3.

ZRAM's max_zpage_size is a bad thing.  It forces zsmalloc to store
normal objects as huge ones, which results in bigger zsmalloc memory
usage.  Drop it and use actual zsmalloc huge-class value when decide if
the object is huge or not.

This patch (of 2):

Not every object can be share its zspage with other objects, e.g.  when
the object is as big as zspage or nearly as big a zspage.  For such
objects zsmalloc has a so called huge class - every object which belongs
to huge class consumes the entire zspage (which consists of a physical
page).  On x86_64, PAGE_SHIFT 12 box, the first non-huge class size is
3264, so starting down from size 3264, objects can share page(-s) and
thus minimize memory wastage.

ZRAM, however, has its own statically defined watermark for huge
objects, namely "3 * PAGE_SIZE / 4 = 3072", and forcibly stores every
object larger than this watermark (3072) as a PAGE_SIZE object, in other
words, to a huge class, while zsmalloc can keep some of those objects in
non-huge classes.  This results in increased memory consumption.

zsmalloc knows better if the object is huge or not.  Introduce
zs_huge_class_size() function which tells if the given object can be
stored in one of non-huge classes or not.  This will let us to drop
ZRAM's huge object watermark and fully rely on zsmalloc when we decide
if the object is huge.

[sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com: add pool param to zs_huge_class_size()]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180314081833.1096-2-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180306070639.7389-2-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-05 21:36:26 -07:00
Documentation mm, page_alloc: extend kernelcore and movablecore for percent 2018-04-05 21:36:25 -07:00
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arch mm: fix races between swapoff and flush dcache 2018-04-05 21:36:26 -07:00
block Char/Misc patches for 4.17-rc1 2018-04-04 20:07:20 -07:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
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drivers device-dax: implement ->pagesize() for smaps to report MMUPageSize 2018-04-05 21:36:26 -07:00
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include zsmalloc: introduce zs_huge_class_size() 2018-04-05 21:36:26 -07:00
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lib lib: fix stall in __bitmap_parselist() 2018-04-05 21:36:21 -07:00
mm zsmalloc: introduce zs_huge_class_size() 2018-04-05 21:36:26 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS Char/Misc patches for 4.17-rc1 2018-04-04 20:07:20 -07:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.