From: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: <catalin.marinas@arm.com>, <will@kernel.org>, <pcc@google.com>,
<andreyknvl@gmail.com>, <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
<yury.norov@gmail.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>, <eugenis@google.com>,
<syednwaris@gmail.com>, <william.gray@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] Implement MTE tag compression for swapped pages
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2023 16:40:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8a4a6e1f-accb-92c2-ae14-9f6945e97f7a@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZQ2mJ9rK7xNoMykL@smile.fi.intel.com>
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2023 17:35:19 +0300
> +Cc: Olek, who internally is being developed something similar to your first
> patch here.
Oh, thanks.
The patch you mentioned properly implements cross-boundary accesses,
mine does not :D
But I guess we want to keep them both to keep the latter as optimized as
the current bitmap_{get,set}_value8()?
>
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 10:08:42AM +0200, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
>> Currently, when MTE pages are swapped out, the tags are kept in the
>> memory, occupying PAGE_SIZE/32 bytes per page. This is especially
>> problematic for devices that use zram-backed in-memory swap, because
>> tags stored uncompressed in the heap effectively reduce the available
>> amount of swap memory.
>>
>> The RLE-based algorithm suggested by Evgenii Stepanov and implemented in
>> this patch series is able to efficiently compress fixed-size tag buffers,
>> resulting in practical compression ratio between 2.5x and 4x. In most
>> cases it is possible to store the compressed data in 63-bit Xarray values,
>> resulting in no extra memory allocations.
>>
>> Our measurements show that the proposed algorithm provides better
>> compression than existing kernel compression algorithms (LZ4, LZO,
>> LZ4HC, ZSTD) can offer.
[...]
Thanks,
Olek
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-22 8:08 [PATCH v5 0/5] Implement MTE tag compression for swapped pages Alexander Potapenko
2023-09-22 8:08 ` [PATCH v5 1/5] lib/bitmap: add bitmap_{read,write}() Alexander Potapenko
2023-09-22 8:08 ` [PATCH v5 2/5] lib/test_bitmap: add tests for bitmap_{read,write}() Alexander Potapenko
2023-09-25 12:16 ` Alexander Potapenko
2023-09-25 12:23 ` Andy Shevchenko
2023-09-25 13:09 ` Alexander Potapenko
2023-09-25 14:54 ` Alexander Potapenko
2023-09-25 16:06 ` Yury Norov
2023-09-25 17:16 ` Alexander Potapenko
2023-09-27 7:51 ` David Laight
2023-09-28 14:19 ` Alexander Potapenko
[not found] ` <CAAH8bW-9ZWB=i0RWAWBXguOkguLHZGp7fLg7An73NqFnVmtgFw@mail.gmail.com>
2023-09-28 15:14 ` Alexander Potapenko
2023-09-28 19:59 ` Yury Norov
2023-09-29 8:54 ` Alexander Potapenko
2023-10-02 2:44 ` Yury Norov
2023-10-02 7:34 ` Alexander Potapenko
2023-09-22 8:08 ` [PATCH v5 3/5] arm64: mte: implement CONFIG_ARM64_MTE_COMP Alexander Potapenko
2023-09-22 8:08 ` [PATCH v5 4/5] arm64: mte: add a test for MTE tags compression Alexander Potapenko
2023-09-22 8:08 ` [PATCH v5 5/5] arm64: mte: add compression support to mteswap.c Alexander Potapenko
2023-09-22 14:35 ` [PATCH v5 0/5] Implement MTE tag compression for swapped pages Andy Shevchenko
2023-09-22 14:40 ` Alexander Lobakin [this message]
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