Re: [PATCH 0/2] RFC: zswap tree use xarray instead of RB tree

[Chris Li]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 11:35 PM Chengming Zhou
<zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >>>                     mm-stable           zswap-split-tree    zswap-xarray
> >>> real                1m10.442s           1m4.157s            1m9.962s
> >>> user                17m48.232s          17m41.477s          17m45.887s
> >>> sys                 8m13.517s           5m2.226s            7m59.305s
> >>>
> >>> Looks like the contention of concurrency is still there, I haven't
> >>> look into the code yet, will review it later.
> >
> > Thanks for the quick test. Interesting to see the sys usage drop for
> > the xarray case even with the spin lock.
> > Not sure if the 13 second saving is statistically significant or not.
> >
> > We might need to have both xarray and split trees for the zswap. It is
> > likely removing the spin lock wouldn't be able to make up the 35%
> > difference. That is just my guess. There is only one way to find out.
>
> Yes, I totally agree with this! IMHO, concurrent zswap_store paths still
> have to contend for the xarray spinlock even though we would have converted
> the rb-tree to the xarray structure at last. So I think we should have both.
>
> >
> > BTW, do you have a script I can run to replicate your results?

Hi Chengming,

Thanks for your script.

>
> ```
> #!/bin/bash
>
> testname="build-kernel-tmpfs"
> cgroup="/sys/fs/cgroup/$testname"
>
> tmpdir="/tmp/vm-scalability-tmp"
> workdir="$tmpdir/$testname"
>
> memory_max="$((2 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024))"
>
> linux_src="/root/zcm/linux-6.6.tar.xz"
> NR_TASK=32
>
> swapon ~/zcm/swapfile

How big is your swapfile here?

It seems you have only one swapfile there. That can explain the contention.
Have you tried multiple swapfiles for the same test?
That should reduce the contention without using your patch.

Chris

> echo 60 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
>
> echo zsmalloc > /sys/module/zswap/parameters/zpool
> echo lz4 > /sys/module/zswap/parameters/compressor
> echo 1 > /sys/module/zswap/parameters/shrinker_enabled
> echo 1 > /sys/module/zswap/parameters/enabled
>
> if ! [ -d $tmpdir ]; then
>         mkdir -p $tmpdir
>         mount -t tmpfs -o size=100% nodev $tmpdir
> fi
>
> mkdir -p $cgroup
> echo $memory_max > $cgroup/memory.max
> echo $$ > $cgroup/cgroup.procs
>
> rm -rf $workdir
> mkdir -p $workdir
> cd $workdir
>
> tar xvf $linux_src
> cd linux-6.6
> make -j$NR_TASK clean
> make defconfig
> time make -j$NR_TASK
> ```
>
>