Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/zswap: change zswap_pool kref to percpu_ref

From: Chengming Zhou
Date: Tue Feb 13 2024 - 09:23:54 EST


On 2024/2/13 02:53, Nhat Pham wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 5:29 AM Chengming Zhou
> <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 2024/2/12 05:21, Nhat Pham wrote:
>>> On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 5:58 AM Chengming Zhou
>>> <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> All zswap entries will take a reference of zswap_pool when
>>>> zswap_store(), and drop it when free. Change it to use the
>>>> percpu_ref is better for scalability performance.
>>>>
>>>> Testing kernel build in tmpfs with memory.max=2GB
>>>> (zswap shrinker and writeback enabled with one 50GB swapfile).
>>>>
>>>> mm-unstable zswap-global-lru
>>>> real 63.20 63.12
>>>> user 1061.75 1062.95
>>>> sys 268.74 264.44
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>> mm/zswap.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++---------
>>>> 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
>>>> index 7668db8c10e3..afb31904fb08 100644
>>>> --- a/mm/zswap.c
>>>> +++ b/mm/zswap.c
>>>> @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ struct crypto_acomp_ctx {
>>>> struct zswap_pool {
>>>> struct zpool *zpools[ZSWAP_NR_ZPOOLS];
>>>> struct crypto_acomp_ctx __percpu *acomp_ctx;
>>>> - struct kref kref;
>>>> + struct percpu_ref ref;
>>>> struct list_head list;
>>>> struct work_struct release_work;
>>>> struct hlist_node node;
>>>> @@ -303,6 +303,7 @@ static void zswap_update_total_size(void)
>>>> /*********************************
>>>> * pool functions
>>>> **********************************/
>>>> +static void __zswap_pool_empty(struct percpu_ref *ref);
>>>>
>>>> static struct zswap_pool *zswap_pool_create(char *type, char *compressor)
>>>> {
>>>> @@ -356,13 +357,18 @@ static struct zswap_pool *zswap_pool_create(char *type, char *compressor)
>>>> /* being the current pool takes 1 ref; this func expects the
>>>> * caller to always add the new pool as the current pool
>>>> */
>>>> - kref_init(&pool->kref);
>>>> + ret = percpu_ref_init(&pool->ref, __zswap_pool_empty,
>>>> + PERCPU_REF_ALLOW_REINIT, GFP_KERNEL);
>>>> + if (ret)
>>>> + goto ref_fail;
>>>> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pool->list);
>>>>
>>>> zswap_pool_debug("created", pool);
>>>>
>>>> return pool;
>>>>
>>>> +ref_fail:
>>>> + cpuhp_state_remove_instance(CPUHP_MM_ZSWP_POOL_PREPARE, &pool->node);
>>>> error:
>>>> if (pool->acomp_ctx)
>>>> free_percpu(pool->acomp_ctx);
>>>> @@ -435,8 +441,8 @@ static void __zswap_pool_release(struct work_struct *work)
>>>>
>>>> synchronize_rcu();
>>>>
>>>> - /* nobody should have been able to get a kref... */
>>>> - WARN_ON(kref_get_unless_zero(&pool->kref));
>>>
>>> Do we no longer care about this WARN? IIUC, this is to catch someone
>>> still holding a reference to the pool at release time, which sounds
>>> like a bug. I think we can simulate the similar behavior with:
>>
>> Ok, I thought it has already been put to 0 when we're here, so any tryget
>> will fail. But keeping this WARN_ON() is also fine to me, will keep it.
>
> Yup - it should fail, if the code is not buggy. But that's a pretty big if :)
>
> Jokes aside, we can remove it if folks think the benefit is not worth
> the cost/overhead. However, I'm a bit hesitant to remove checks in
> zswap, especially given how buggy it has been (some of which are
> refcnt bugs as well, IIRC).

Yes, agree. It looks clearer to keep it, which should be no cost at all.

Thanks!