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Chengming Zhou f9c0f1c32c mm/zswap: add more comments in shrink_memcg_cb()
Patch series "mm/zswap: optimize zswap lru list", v2.

This series is motivated when observe the zswap lru list shrinking, noted
there are some unexpected cases in zswap_writeback_entry().

bpftrace -e 'kr:zswap_writeback_entry {@[(int32)retval]=count()}'

There are some -ENOMEM because when the swap entry is freed to per-cpu
swap pool, it doesn't invalidate/drop zswap entry.  Then the shrinker
encounter these trashy zswap entries, it can't be reclaimed and return
-ENOMEM.

So move the invalidation ahead to when swap entry freed to the per-cpu
swap pool, since there is no any benefit to leave trashy zswap entries on
the zswap tree and lru list.

Another case is -EEXIST, which is seen more in the case of
!zswap_exclusive_loads_enabled, in which case the swapin folio will leave
compressed copy on the tree and lru list.  And it can't be reclaimed until
the folio is removed from swapcache.

Changing to zswap_exclusive_loads_enabled mode will invalidate when folio
swapin, which has its own drawback if that folio is still clean in
swapcache and swapout again, we need to compress it again.  Please see the
commit for details on why we choose exclusive load as the default for
zswap.

Another optimization for -EEXIST is that we add LRU_STOP to support
terminating the shrinking process to avoid evicting warmer region.

Testing using kernel build in tmpfs, one 50GB swapfile and
zswap shrinker_enabled, with memory.max set to 2GB.

                mm-unstable   zswap-optimize
real               63.90s       63.25s
user             1064.05s     1063.40s
sys               292.32s      270.94s

The main optimization is in sys cpu, about 7% improvement.


This patch (of 6):

Add more comments in shrink_memcg_cb() to describe the deref dance which
is implemented to fix race problem between lru writeback and swapoff, and
the reason why we rotate the entry at the beginning.

Also fix the stale comments in zswap_writeback_entry(), and add more
comments to state that we only deref the tree after we get the swapcache
reference.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240201-b4-zswap-invalidate-entry-v2-0-99d4084260a0@bytedance.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240201-b4-zswap-invalidate-entry-v2-1-99d4084260a0@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Suggested-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-02-22 10:24:54 -08:00
arch powerpc/mm: use pte_next_pfn() in set_ptes() 2024-02-22 10:24:51 -08:00
block blk-iocost: Fix an UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning 2024-02-08 10:11:39 -07:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto crypto: algif_hash - Remove bogus SGL free on zero-length error path 2024-02-02 18:08:12 +08:00
Documentation kasan: docs: update descriptions about test file and module 2024-02-22 10:24:53 -08:00
drivers x86/mm: delete unused cpu argument to leave_mm() 2024-02-22 10:24:41 -08:00
fs userfaultfd: fix return error if mmap_changing is non-zero in MOVE ioctl 2024-02-22 10:24:38 -08:00
include mm/cma: make MAX_CMA_AREAS = CONFIG_CMA_AREAS 2024-02-22 10:24:53 -08:00
init arm64, powerpc, riscv, s390, x86: ptdump: refactor CONFIG_DEBUG_WX 2024-02-22 10:24:47 -08:00
io_uring io_uring/net: fix multishot accept overflow handling 2024-02-14 18:30:19 -07:00
ipc shm: Slim down dependencies 2023-12-20 19:26:31 -05:00
kernel mm/cma: drop CONFIG_CMA_DEBUG 2024-02-22 10:24:53 -08:00
lib XArray: add cmpxchg order test 2024-02-22 10:24:48 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm mm/zswap: add more comments in shrink_memcg_cb() 2024-02-22 10:24:54 -08:00
net Including fixes from can, wireless and netfilter. 2024-02-15 11:39:27 -08:00
rust Rust changes for v6.8 2024-01-11 13:05:41 -08:00
samples work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with outputs 2024-02-09 15:57:48 -08:00
scripts scripts/gdb/vmalloc: fix vmallocinfo error 2024-02-21 16:00:02 -08:00
security lsm/stable-6.8 PR 20240215 2024-02-16 07:58:43 -08:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: More relaxed check of MIDI jack names 2024-02-15 16:56:05 +01:00
tools selftests/mm: run_vmtests.sh: add hugetlb_madv_vs_map 2024-02-22 10:24:53 -08:00
usr Kbuild updates for v6.8 2024-01-18 17:57:07 -08:00
virt Generic: 2024-01-17 13:03:37 -08:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
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COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: supplement of zswap maintainers update 2024-01-25 23:52:21 -08:00
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Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
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