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[PATCH 1/2] zsmalloc: introduce zs_huge_object() function

From: Sergey Senozhatsky <hidden>
Date: 2018-02-07 09:29:39
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: memory management, the rest, zsmalloc compressed slab memory allocator · Maintainers: Andrew Morton, Linus Torvalds, Minchan Kim, Sergey Senozhatsky

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 - "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_object() 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.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <redacted>
---
 include/linux/zsmalloc.h |  2 ++
 mm/zsmalloc.c            | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/zsmalloc.h b/include/linux/zsmalloc.h
index 57a8e98f2708..9a1baf673cc1 100644
--- a/include/linux/zsmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/zsmalloc.h
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ void zs_destroy_pool(struct zs_pool *pool);
 unsigned long zs_malloc(struct zs_pool *pool, size_t size, gfp_t flags);
 void zs_free(struct zs_pool *pool, unsigned long obj);
 
+bool zs_huge_object(size_t sz);
+
 void *zs_map_object(struct zs_pool *pool, unsigned long handle,
 			enum zs_mapmode mm);
 void zs_unmap_object(struct zs_pool *pool, unsigned long handle);
diff --git a/mm/zsmalloc.c b/mm/zsmalloc.c
index c3013505c305..b3e295a806be 100644
--- a/mm/zsmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/zsmalloc.c
@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ static struct vfsmount *zsmalloc_mnt;
  * (see: fix_fullness_group())
  */
 static const int fullness_threshold_frac = 4;
+static size_t zs_huge_class_size;
 
 struct size_class {
 	spinlock_t lock;
@@ -1417,6 +1418,19 @@ void zs_unmap_object(struct zs_pool *pool, unsigned long handle)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(zs_unmap_object);
 
+/*
+ * Check if the object's size falls into huge_class area. We must take
+ * ZS_HANDLE_SIZE into account and test the actual size we are going to
+ * use up. zs_malloc() unconditionally adds handle size before it performs
+ * size_class lookup, so we may endup in a huge class yet zs_huge_object()
+ * returned 'false'.
+ */
+bool zs_huge_object(size_t sz)
+{
+	return sz + ZS_HANDLE_SIZE >= zs_huge_class_size;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(zs_huge_object);
+
 static unsigned long obj_malloc(struct size_class *class,
 				struct zspage *zspage, unsigned long handle)
 {
@@ -2404,6 +2418,9 @@ struct zs_pool *zs_create_pool(const char *name)
 			INIT_LIST_HEAD(&class->fullness_list[fullness]);
 
 		prev_class = class;
+		if (pages_per_zspage == 1 && objs_per_zspage == 1
+				&& !zs_huge_class_size)
+			zs_huge_class_size = size;
 	}
 
 	/* debug only, don't abort if it fails */
-- 
2.16.1

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