Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: zswap: optimize zswap pool size tracking

[Yosry Ahmed]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 12:12:13PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Profiling the munmap() of a zswapped memory region shows 50%(!) of the
> total cycles currently going into updating the zswap_pool_total_size.

Yikes. I have always hated that size update scheme FWIW.

I have also wondered whether it makes sense to just maintain the number
of pages in zswap as an atomic, like zswap_stored_pages. I guess your
proposed scheme is even cheaper for the load/invalidate paths because we
do nothing at all.  It could be an option if the aggregation in other
paths ever becomes a problem, but we would need to make sure it
doesn't regress the load/invalidate paths. Just sharing some thoughts.

> 
> There are three consumers of this counter:
> - store, to enforce the globally configured pool limit
> - meminfo & debugfs, to report the size to the user
> - shrink, to determine the batch size for each cycle
> 
> Instead of aggregating everytime an entry enters or exits the zswap
> pool, aggregate the value from the zpools on-demand:
> 
> - Stores aggregate the counter anyway upon success. Aggregating to
>   check the limit instead is the same amount of work.
> 
> - Meminfo & debugfs might benefit somewhat from a pre-aggregated
>   counter, but aren't exactly hotpaths.
> 
> - Shrinking can aggregate once for every cycle instead of doing it for
>   every freed entry. As the shrinker might work on tens or hundreds of
>   objects per scan cycle, this is a large reduction in aggregations.
> 
> The paths that benefit dramatically are swapin, swapoff, and
> unmaps. There could be millions of pages being processed until
> somebody asks for the pool size again. This eliminates the pool size
> updates from those paths entirely.

This looks like a big win, thanks! I wonder if you have any numbers of
perf profiles to share. That would be nice to have, but I think the
benefit is clear regardless.

I also like the implicit cleanup when we switch to maintaining the
number of pages rather than bytes. The code looks much better with all
the shifts and divisions gone :)

I have a couple of comments below. With them addressed, feel free to
add:
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx>

[..]  
> @@ -1385,6 +1365,10 @@ static void shrink_worker(struct work_struct *w)
>  {
>  	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
>  	int ret, failures = 0;
> +	unsigned long thr;
> +
> +	/* Reclaim down to the accept threshold */
> +	thr = zswap_max_pages() * zswap_accept_thr_percent / 100;

This calculation is repeated twice, so I'd rather keep a helper for it
as an alternative to zswap_can_accept(). Perhaps zswap_threshold_page()
or zswap_acceptance_pages()?

>  
>  	/* global reclaim will select cgroup in a round-robin fashion. */
>  	do {
> @@ -1432,10 +1416,9 @@ static void shrink_worker(struct work_struct *w)
>  			break;
>  		if (ret && ++failures == MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES)
>  			break;
> -
>  resched:
>  		cond_resched();
> -	} while (!zswap_can_accept());
> +	} while (zswap_total_pages() > thr);
>  }
[..]
> @@ -1711,6 +1700,13 @@ void zswap_swapoff(int type)
>  
>  static struct dentry *zswap_debugfs_root;
>  
> +static int debugfs_get_total_size(void *data, u64 *val)
> +{
> +	*val = zswap_total_pages() * PAGE_SIZE;
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE(total_size_fops, debugfs_get_total_size, NULL, "%llu");

I think we are missing a newline here to maintain the current format
(i.e "%llu\n").

> +
>  static int zswap_debugfs_init(void)
>  {
>  	if (!debugfs_initialized())
> @@ -1732,8 +1728,8 @@ static int zswap_debugfs_init(void)
>  			   zswap_debugfs_root, &zswap_reject_compress_poor);
>  	debugfs_create_u64("written_back_pages", 0444,
>  			   zswap_debugfs_root, &zswap_written_back_pages);
> -	debugfs_create_u64("pool_total_size", 0444,
> -			   zswap_debugfs_root, &zswap_pool_total_size);
> +	debugfs_create_file("pool_total_size", 0444,
> +			    zswap_debugfs_root, NULL, &total_size_fops);
>  	debugfs_create_atomic_t("stored_pages", 0444,
>  				zswap_debugfs_root, &zswap_stored_pages);
>  	debugfs_create_atomic_t("same_filled_pages", 0444,
> -- 
> 2.44.0
>