* [PATCH] zram: remove global tb_lock by using lock-free CAS
@ 2014-05-05 4:01 Weijie Yang
2014-05-05 10:32 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2014-05-05 15:20 ` Seth Jennings
0 siblings, 2 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: Weijie Yang @ 2014-05-05 4:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'Minchan Kim'
Cc: 'Andrew Morton', 'Nitin Gupta',
'Sergey Senozhatsky', 'Bob Liu',
'Dan Streetman',
weijie.yang.kh, heesub.shin, 'linux-kernel',
'Linux-MM'
Currently, we use a rwlock tb_lock to protect concurrent access to
whole zram meta table. However, according to the actual access model,
there is only a small chance for upper user access the same table[index],
so the current lock granularity is too big.
This patch add a atomic state for every table[index] to record its access,
by using CAS operation, protect concurrent access to the same table[index],
meanwhile allow the maximum concurrency.
On 64-bit system, it will not increase the meta table memory overhead, and
on 32-bit system with 4K page_size, it will increase about 1MB memory overhead
for 1GB zram. So, it is cost-efficient.
Test result:
(x86-64 Intel Core2 Q8400, system memory 4GB, Ubuntu 12.04,
kernel v3.15.0-rc3, zram 1GB with 4 max_comp_streams LZO,
take the average of 5 tests)
iozone -t 4 -R -r 16K -s 200M -I +Z
Test base lock-free ratio
------------------------------------------------------
Initial write 1348017.60 1424141.62 +5.6%
Rewrite 1520189.16 1652504.81 +8.7%
Read 8294445.45 11404668.35 +37.5%
Re-read 8134448.83 11555483.75 +42.1%
Reverse Read 6748717.97 8394478.17 +24.4%
Stride read 7220276.66 9372229.95 +29.8%
Random read 7133010.06 9187221.90 +28.8%
Mixed workload 4056980.71 5843370.85 +44.0%
Random write 1470106.17 1608947.04 +9.4%
Pwrite 1259493.72 1311055.32 +4.1%
Pread 4247583.17 4652056.11 +9.5%
Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com>
---
This patch is based on linux-next tree, commit b5c8d48bf8f42
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
index 48eccb3..8b70945
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -255,7 +255,6 @@ static struct zram_meta *zram_meta_alloc(u64 disksize)
goto free_table;
}
- rwlock_init(&meta->tb_lock);
return meta;
free_table:
@@ -339,12 +338,14 @@ static int zram_decompress_page(struct zram *zram, char *mem, u32 index)
unsigned long handle;
u16 size;
- read_lock(&meta->tb_lock);
+ while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
+ cpu_relax();
+
handle = meta->table[index].handle;
size = meta->table[index].size;
if (!handle || zram_test_flag(meta, index, ZRAM_ZERO)) {
- read_unlock(&meta->tb_lock);
+ atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
clear_page(mem);
return 0;
}
@@ -355,7 +356,7 @@ static int zram_decompress_page(struct zram *zram, char *mem, u32 index)
else
ret = zcomp_decompress(zram->comp, cmem, size, mem);
zs_unmap_object(meta->mem_pool, handle);
- read_unlock(&meta->tb_lock);
+ atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
/* Should NEVER happen. Return bio error if it does. */
if (unlikely(ret)) {
@@ -376,14 +377,16 @@ static int zram_bvec_read(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec,
struct zram_meta *meta = zram->meta;
page = bvec->bv_page;
- read_lock(&meta->tb_lock);
+ while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
+ cpu_relax();
+
if (unlikely(!meta->table[index].handle) ||
zram_test_flag(meta, index, ZRAM_ZERO)) {
- read_unlock(&meta->tb_lock);
+ atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
handle_zero_page(bvec);
return 0;
}
- read_unlock(&meta->tb_lock);
+ atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
if (is_partial_io(bvec))
/* Use a temporary buffer to decompress the page */
@@ -461,10 +464,13 @@ static int zram_bvec_write(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec, u32 index,
if (page_zero_filled(uncmem)) {
kunmap_atomic(user_mem);
/* Free memory associated with this sector now. */
- write_lock(&zram->meta->tb_lock);
+ while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state,
+ IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
+ cpu_relax();
+
zram_free_page(zram, index);
zram_set_flag(meta, index, ZRAM_ZERO);
- write_unlock(&zram->meta->tb_lock);
+ atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
atomic64_inc(&zram->stats.zero_pages);
ret = 0;
@@ -514,12 +520,13 @@ static int zram_bvec_write(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec, u32 index,
* Free memory associated with this sector
* before overwriting unused sectors.
*/
- write_lock(&zram->meta->tb_lock);
+ while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
+ cpu_relax();
zram_free_page(zram, index);
meta->table[index].handle = handle;
meta->table[index].size = clen;
- write_unlock(&zram->meta->tb_lock);
+ atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
/* Update stats */
atomic64_add(clen, &zram->stats.compr_data_size);
@@ -560,6 +567,7 @@ static void zram_bio_discard(struct zram *zram, u32 index,
int offset, struct bio *bio)
{
size_t n = bio->bi_iter.bi_size;
+ struct zram_meta *meta = zram->meta;
/*
* zram manages data in physical block size units. Because logical block
@@ -584,9 +592,11 @@ static void zram_bio_discard(struct zram *zram, u32 index,
* Discard request can be large so the lock hold times could be
* lengthy. So take the lock once per page.
*/
- write_lock(&zram->meta->tb_lock);
+ while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state,
+ IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
+ cpu_relax();
zram_free_page(zram, index);
- write_unlock(&zram->meta->tb_lock);
+ atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
index++;
n -= PAGE_SIZE;
}
@@ -804,9 +814,10 @@ static void zram_slot_free_notify(struct block_device *bdev,
zram = bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
meta = zram->meta;
- write_lock(&meta->tb_lock);
+ while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
+ cpu_relax();
zram_free_page(zram, index);
- write_unlock(&meta->tb_lock);
+ atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
atomic64_inc(&zram->stats.notify_free);
}
diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
index 7f21c14..76b2bb5
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
@@ -61,9 +61,13 @@ enum zram_pageflags {
/*-- Data structures */
+#define IDLE 0
+#define ACCESS 1
+
/* Allocated for each disk page */
struct table {
unsigned long handle;
+ atomic_t state;
u16 size; /* object size (excluding header) */
u8 flags;
} __aligned(4);
@@ -81,7 +85,6 @@ struct zram_stats {
};
struct zram_meta {
- rwlock_t tb_lock; /* protect table */
struct table *table;
struct zs_pool *mem_pool;
};
--
1.7.10.4
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* Re: [PATCH] zram: remove global tb_lock by using lock-free CAS
2014-05-05 4:01 [PATCH] zram: remove global tb_lock by using lock-free CAS Weijie Yang
@ 2014-05-05 10:32 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2014-05-05 15:20 ` Seth Jennings
1 sibling, 0 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: Sergey Senozhatsky @ 2014-05-05 10:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Weijie Yang
Cc: 'Minchan Kim', 'Andrew Morton',
'Nitin Gupta', 'Sergey Senozhatsky',
'Bob Liu', 'Dan Streetman',
weijie.yang.kh, heesub.shin, 'linux-kernel',
'Linux-MM'
Hello Weijie,
On (05/05/14 12:01), Weijie Yang wrote:
> Currently, we use a rwlock tb_lock to protect concurrent access to
> whole zram meta table. However, according to the actual access model,
> there is only a small chance for upper user access the same table[index],
> so the current lock granularity is too big.
>
> This patch add a atomic state for every table[index] to record its access,
> by using CAS operation, protect concurrent access to the same table[index],
> meanwhile allow the maximum concurrency.
>
> On 64-bit system, it will not increase the meta table memory overhead, and
> on 32-bit system with 4K page_size, it will increase about 1MB memory overhead
> for 1GB zram. So, it is cost-efficient.
>
not sure if it worth the effort (just an idea), but can we merge `u8 flags' and
`atomic_t state' into `atomic_t flags'. then reserve, say, 1 bit for IDLE/BUSY
(ACCESS) bit and the rest for flags (there is only one at the moment - ZRAM_ZERO).
> Test result:
> (x86-64 Intel Core2 Q8400, system memory 4GB, Ubuntu 12.04,
> kernel v3.15.0-rc3, zram 1GB with 4 max_comp_streams LZO,
> take the average of 5 tests)
>
> iozone -t 4 -R -r 16K -s 200M -I +Z
>
> Test base lock-free ratio
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Initial write 1348017.60 1424141.62 +5.6%
> Rewrite 1520189.16 1652504.81 +8.7%
> Read 8294445.45 11404668.35 +37.5%
> Re-read 8134448.83 11555483.75 +42.1%
> Reverse Read 6748717.97 8394478.17 +24.4%
> Stride read 7220276.66 9372229.95 +29.8%
> Random read 7133010.06 9187221.90 +28.8%
> Mixed workload 4056980.71 5843370.85 +44.0%
> Random write 1470106.17 1608947.04 +9.4%
> Pwrite 1259493.72 1311055.32 +4.1%
> Pread 4247583.17 4652056.11 +9.5%
>
> Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com>
> ---
>
> This patch is based on linux-next tree, commit b5c8d48bf8f42
>
> drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h | 5 ++++-
> 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> index 48eccb3..8b70945
> --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> @@ -255,7 +255,6 @@ static struct zram_meta *zram_meta_alloc(u64 disksize)
> goto free_table;
> }
>
> - rwlock_init(&meta->tb_lock);
> return meta;
>
> free_table:
> @@ -339,12 +338,14 @@ static int zram_decompress_page(struct zram *zram, char *mem, u32 index)
> unsigned long handle;
> u16 size;
>
> - read_lock(&meta->tb_lock);
> + while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
> + cpu_relax();
> +
a minor nitpick, this seems to be a common for 6 places, so how about factoring
out this loop to a `static inline zram_wait_for_idle_bit(meta, index)' function
(the naming is not perfect, just as example)?
'while()' does not pass checkpatch's coding style check.
-ss
> handle = meta->table[index].handle;
> size = meta->table[index].size;
>
> if (!handle || zram_test_flag(meta, index, ZRAM_ZERO)) {
> - read_unlock(&meta->tb_lock);
> + atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
> clear_page(mem);
> return 0;
> }
> @@ -355,7 +356,7 @@ static int zram_decompress_page(struct zram *zram, char *mem, u32 index)
> else
> ret = zcomp_decompress(zram->comp, cmem, size, mem);
> zs_unmap_object(meta->mem_pool, handle);
> - read_unlock(&meta->tb_lock);
> + atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
>
> /* Should NEVER happen. Return bio error if it does. */
> if (unlikely(ret)) {
> @@ -376,14 +377,16 @@ static int zram_bvec_read(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec,
> struct zram_meta *meta = zram->meta;
> page = bvec->bv_page;
>
> - read_lock(&meta->tb_lock);
> + while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
> + cpu_relax();
> +
> if (unlikely(!meta->table[index].handle) ||
> zram_test_flag(meta, index, ZRAM_ZERO)) {
> - read_unlock(&meta->tb_lock);
> + atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
> handle_zero_page(bvec);
> return 0;
> }
> - read_unlock(&meta->tb_lock);
> + atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
>
> if (is_partial_io(bvec))
> /* Use a temporary buffer to decompress the page */
> @@ -461,10 +464,13 @@ static int zram_bvec_write(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec, u32 index,
> if (page_zero_filled(uncmem)) {
> kunmap_atomic(user_mem);
> /* Free memory associated with this sector now. */
> - write_lock(&zram->meta->tb_lock);
> + while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state,
> + IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
> + cpu_relax();
> +
> zram_free_page(zram, index);
> zram_set_flag(meta, index, ZRAM_ZERO);
> - write_unlock(&zram->meta->tb_lock);
> + atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
>
> atomic64_inc(&zram->stats.zero_pages);
> ret = 0;
> @@ -514,12 +520,13 @@ static int zram_bvec_write(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec, u32 index,
> * Free memory associated with this sector
> * before overwriting unused sectors.
> */
> - write_lock(&zram->meta->tb_lock);
> + while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
> + cpu_relax();
> zram_free_page(zram, index);
>
> meta->table[index].handle = handle;
> meta->table[index].size = clen;
> - write_unlock(&zram->meta->tb_lock);
> + atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
>
> /* Update stats */
> atomic64_add(clen, &zram->stats.compr_data_size);
> @@ -560,6 +567,7 @@ static void zram_bio_discard(struct zram *zram, u32 index,
> int offset, struct bio *bio)
> {
> size_t n = bio->bi_iter.bi_size;
> + struct zram_meta *meta = zram->meta;
>
> /*
> * zram manages data in physical block size units. Because logical block
> @@ -584,9 +592,11 @@ static void zram_bio_discard(struct zram *zram, u32 index,
> * Discard request can be large so the lock hold times could be
> * lengthy. So take the lock once per page.
> */
> - write_lock(&zram->meta->tb_lock);
> + while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state,
> + IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
> + cpu_relax();
> zram_free_page(zram, index);
> - write_unlock(&zram->meta->tb_lock);
> + atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
> index++;
> n -= PAGE_SIZE;
> }
> @@ -804,9 +814,10 @@ static void zram_slot_free_notify(struct block_device *bdev,
> zram = bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
> meta = zram->meta;
>
> - write_lock(&meta->tb_lock);
> + while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
> + cpu_relax();
> zram_free_page(zram, index);
> - write_unlock(&meta->tb_lock);
> + atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
> atomic64_inc(&zram->stats.notify_free);
> }
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
> index 7f21c14..76b2bb5
> --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
> @@ -61,9 +61,13 @@ enum zram_pageflags {
>
> /*-- Data structures */
>
> +#define IDLE 0
> +#define ACCESS 1
> +
> /* Allocated for each disk page */
> struct table {
> unsigned long handle;
> + atomic_t state;
> u16 size; /* object size (excluding header) */
> u8 flags;
> } __aligned(4);
> @@ -81,7 +85,6 @@ struct zram_stats {
> };
>
> struct zram_meta {
> - rwlock_t tb_lock; /* protect table */
> struct table *table;
> struct zs_pool *mem_pool;
> };
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>
>
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* Re: [PATCH] zram: remove global tb_lock by using lock-free CAS
2014-05-05 4:01 [PATCH] zram: remove global tb_lock by using lock-free CAS Weijie Yang
2014-05-05 10:32 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
@ 2014-05-05 15:20 ` Seth Jennings
2014-05-05 18:00 ` Davidlohr Bueso
1 sibling, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Seth Jennings @ 2014-05-05 15:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Weijie Yang
Cc: 'Minchan Kim', 'Andrew Morton',
'Nitin Gupta', 'Sergey Senozhatsky',
'Bob Liu', 'Dan Streetman',
weijie.yang.kh, heesub.shin, 'linux-kernel',
'Linux-MM'
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 12:01:21PM +0800, Weijie Yang wrote:
> Currently, we use a rwlock tb_lock to protect concurrent access to
> whole zram meta table. However, according to the actual access model,
> there is only a small chance for upper user access the same table[index],
> so the current lock granularity is too big.
>
> This patch add a atomic state for every table[index] to record its access,
> by using CAS operation, protect concurrent access to the same table[index],
> meanwhile allow the maximum concurrency.
>
> On 64-bit system, it will not increase the meta table memory overhead, and
> on 32-bit system with 4K page_size, it will increase about 1MB memory overhead
> for 1GB zram. So, it is cost-efficient.
>
> Test result:
> (x86-64 Intel Core2 Q8400, system memory 4GB, Ubuntu 12.04,
> kernel v3.15.0-rc3, zram 1GB with 4 max_comp_streams LZO,
> take the average of 5 tests)
>
> iozone -t 4 -R -r 16K -s 200M -I +Z
>
> Test base lock-free ratio
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Initial write 1348017.60 1424141.62 +5.6%
> Rewrite 1520189.16 1652504.81 +8.7%
> Read 8294445.45 11404668.35 +37.5%
> Re-read 8134448.83 11555483.75 +42.1%
> Reverse Read 6748717.97 8394478.17 +24.4%
> Stride read 7220276.66 9372229.95 +29.8%
> Random read 7133010.06 9187221.90 +28.8%
> Mixed workload 4056980.71 5843370.85 +44.0%
> Random write 1470106.17 1608947.04 +9.4%
> Pwrite 1259493.72 1311055.32 +4.1%
> Pread 4247583.17 4652056.11 +9.5%
>
> Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com>
> ---
>
> This patch is based on linux-next tree, commit b5c8d48bf8f42
>
> drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h | 5 ++++-
> 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> index 48eccb3..8b70945
> --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> @@ -255,7 +255,6 @@ static struct zram_meta *zram_meta_alloc(u64 disksize)
> goto free_table;
> }
>
> - rwlock_init(&meta->tb_lock);
> return meta;
>
> free_table:
> @@ -339,12 +338,14 @@ static int zram_decompress_page(struct zram *zram, char *mem, u32 index)
> unsigned long handle;
> u16 size;
>
> - read_lock(&meta->tb_lock);
> + while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
> + cpu_relax();
> +
So... this might be dumb question, but this looks like a spinlock
implementation.
What advantage does this have over a standard spinlock?
Seth
> handle = meta->table[index].handle;
> size = meta->table[index].size;
>
> if (!handle || zram_test_flag(meta, index, ZRAM_ZERO)) {
> - read_unlock(&meta->tb_lock);
> + atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
> clear_page(mem);
> return 0;
> }
> @@ -355,7 +356,7 @@ static int zram_decompress_page(struct zram *zram, char *mem, u32 index)
> else
> ret = zcomp_decompress(zram->comp, cmem, size, mem);
> zs_unmap_object(meta->mem_pool, handle);
> - read_unlock(&meta->tb_lock);
> + atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
>
> /* Should NEVER happen. Return bio error if it does. */
> if (unlikely(ret)) {
> @@ -376,14 +377,16 @@ static int zram_bvec_read(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec,
> struct zram_meta *meta = zram->meta;
> page = bvec->bv_page;
>
> - read_lock(&meta->tb_lock);
> + while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
> + cpu_relax();
> +
> if (unlikely(!meta->table[index].handle) ||
> zram_test_flag(meta, index, ZRAM_ZERO)) {
> - read_unlock(&meta->tb_lock);
> + atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
> handle_zero_page(bvec);
> return 0;
> }
> - read_unlock(&meta->tb_lock);
> + atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
>
> if (is_partial_io(bvec))
> /* Use a temporary buffer to decompress the page */
> @@ -461,10 +464,13 @@ static int zram_bvec_write(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec, u32 index,
> if (page_zero_filled(uncmem)) {
> kunmap_atomic(user_mem);
> /* Free memory associated with this sector now. */
> - write_lock(&zram->meta->tb_lock);
> + while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state,
> + IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
> + cpu_relax();
> +
> zram_free_page(zram, index);
> zram_set_flag(meta, index, ZRAM_ZERO);
> - write_unlock(&zram->meta->tb_lock);
> + atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
>
> atomic64_inc(&zram->stats.zero_pages);
> ret = 0;
> @@ -514,12 +520,13 @@ static int zram_bvec_write(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec, u32 index,
> * Free memory associated with this sector
> * before overwriting unused sectors.
> */
> - write_lock(&zram->meta->tb_lock);
> + while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
> + cpu_relax();
> zram_free_page(zram, index);
>
> meta->table[index].handle = handle;
> meta->table[index].size = clen;
> - write_unlock(&zram->meta->tb_lock);
> + atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
>
> /* Update stats */
> atomic64_add(clen, &zram->stats.compr_data_size);
> @@ -560,6 +567,7 @@ static void zram_bio_discard(struct zram *zram, u32 index,
> int offset, struct bio *bio)
> {
> size_t n = bio->bi_iter.bi_size;
> + struct zram_meta *meta = zram->meta;
>
> /*
> * zram manages data in physical block size units. Because logical block
> @@ -584,9 +592,11 @@ static void zram_bio_discard(struct zram *zram, u32 index,
> * Discard request can be large so the lock hold times could be
> * lengthy. So take the lock once per page.
> */
> - write_lock(&zram->meta->tb_lock);
> + while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state,
> + IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
> + cpu_relax();
> zram_free_page(zram, index);
> - write_unlock(&zram->meta->tb_lock);
> + atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
> index++;
> n -= PAGE_SIZE;
> }
> @@ -804,9 +814,10 @@ static void zram_slot_free_notify(struct block_device *bdev,
> zram = bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
> meta = zram->meta;
>
> - write_lock(&meta->tb_lock);
> + while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
> + cpu_relax();
> zram_free_page(zram, index);
> - write_unlock(&meta->tb_lock);
> + atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
> atomic64_inc(&zram->stats.notify_free);
> }
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
> index 7f21c14..76b2bb5
> --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
> @@ -61,9 +61,13 @@ enum zram_pageflags {
>
> /*-- Data structures */
>
> +#define IDLE 0
> +#define ACCESS 1
> +
> /* Allocated for each disk page */
> struct table {
> unsigned long handle;
> + atomic_t state;
> u16 size; /* object size (excluding header) */
> u8 flags;
> } __aligned(4);
> @@ -81,7 +85,6 @@ struct zram_stats {
> };
>
> struct zram_meta {
> - rwlock_t tb_lock; /* protect table */
> struct table *table;
> struct zs_pool *mem_pool;
> };
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>
>
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* Re: [PATCH] zram: remove global tb_lock by using lock-free CAS
2014-05-05 15:20 ` Seth Jennings
@ 2014-05-05 18:00 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-05-05 20:46 ` Andrew Morton
0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Davidlohr Bueso @ 2014-05-05 18:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Seth Jennings
Cc: Weijie Yang, 'Minchan Kim', 'Andrew Morton',
'Nitin Gupta', 'Sergey Senozhatsky',
'Bob Liu', 'Dan Streetman',
weijie.yang.kh, heesub.shin, 'linux-kernel',
'Linux-MM'
On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 10:20 -0500, Seth Jennings wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 12:01:21PM +0800, Weijie Yang wrote:
> > Currently, we use a rwlock tb_lock to protect concurrent access to
> > whole zram meta table. However, according to the actual access model,
> > there is only a small chance for upper user access the same table[index],
> > so the current lock granularity is too big.
> >
> > This patch add a atomic state for every table[index] to record its access,
> > by using CAS operation, protect concurrent access to the same table[index],
> > meanwhile allow the maximum concurrency.
> >
> > On 64-bit system, it will not increase the meta table memory overhead, and
> > on 32-bit system with 4K page_size, it will increase about 1MB memory overhead
> > for 1GB zram. So, it is cost-efficient.
> >
> > Test result:
> > (x86-64 Intel Core2 Q8400, system memory 4GB, Ubuntu 12.04,
> > kernel v3.15.0-rc3, zram 1GB with 4 max_comp_streams LZO,
> > take the average of 5 tests)
> >
> > iozone -t 4 -R -r 16K -s 200M -I +Z
> >
> > Test base lock-free ratio
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > Initial write 1348017.60 1424141.62 +5.6%
> > Rewrite 1520189.16 1652504.81 +8.7%
> > Read 8294445.45 11404668.35 +37.5%
> > Re-read 8134448.83 11555483.75 +42.1%
> > Reverse Read 6748717.97 8394478.17 +24.4%
> > Stride read 7220276.66 9372229.95 +29.8%
> > Random read 7133010.06 9187221.90 +28.8%
> > Mixed workload 4056980.71 5843370.85 +44.0%
> > Random write 1470106.17 1608947.04 +9.4%
> > Pwrite 1259493.72 1311055.32 +4.1%
> > Pread 4247583.17 4652056.11 +9.5%
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com>
> > ---
> >
> > This patch is based on linux-next tree, commit b5c8d48bf8f42
> >
> > drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> > drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h | 5 ++++-
> > 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> > index 48eccb3..8b70945
> > --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> > +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> > @@ -255,7 +255,6 @@ static struct zram_meta *zram_meta_alloc(u64 disksize)
> > goto free_table;
> > }
> >
> > - rwlock_init(&meta->tb_lock);
> > return meta;
> >
> > free_table:
> > @@ -339,12 +338,14 @@ static int zram_decompress_page(struct zram *zram, char *mem, u32 index)
> > unsigned long handle;
> > u16 size;
> >
> > - read_lock(&meta->tb_lock);
> > + while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
> > + cpu_relax();
> > +
>
> So... this might be dumb question, but this looks like a spinlock
> implementation.
>
> What advantage does this have over a standard spinlock?
I was wondering the same thing. Furthermore by doing this you'll loose
the benefits of sharing the lock... your numbers do indicate that it is
for the better. Also, note that hopefully rwlock_t will soon be updated
to be fair and perform up to par with spinlocks, something which is long
overdue. So you could reduce the critical region by implementing the
same granularity, just don't implement your own locking schemes, like
this.
> Seth
>
> > handle = meta->table[index].handle;
> > size = meta->table[index].size;
> >
> > if (!handle || zram_test_flag(meta, index, ZRAM_ZERO)) {
> > - read_unlock(&meta->tb_lock);
> > + atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
> > clear_page(mem);
> > return 0;
> > }
> > @@ -355,7 +356,7 @@ static int zram_decompress_page(struct zram *zram, char *mem, u32 index)
> > else
> > ret = zcomp_decompress(zram->comp, cmem, size, mem);
> > zs_unmap_object(meta->mem_pool, handle);
> > - read_unlock(&meta->tb_lock);
> > + atomic_set(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE);
> >
> > /* Should NEVER happen. Return bio error if it does. */
> > if (unlikely(ret)) {
> > @@ -376,14 +377,16 @@ static int zram_bvec_read(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec,
> > struct zram_meta *meta = zram->meta;
> > page = bvec->bv_page;
> >
> > - read_lock(&meta->tb_lock);
> > + while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
> > + cpu_relax();
> > +
So here you could reduce the amount of atomic ops and cacheline boucing
by doing a read before the CAS. It works well for our mutexes and
rwsems. Something like:
while (true) {
if (atomic_read(&meta->table[index].state) == IDLE &&
atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE, ACCESS) == IDLE)
/* yay! lock acquired */
}
But then again, that's kind of implementing your own locking scheme...
use a standard one instead ;)
Also, instead of cpu_relax() you probably want arch_mutex_cpu_relax()
for the sake of z systems.
Thanks,
Davidlohr
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 15+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH] zram: remove global tb_lock by using lock-free CAS
2014-05-05 18:00 ` Davidlohr Bueso
@ 2014-05-05 20:46 ` Andrew Morton
2014-05-05 22:22 ` Davidlohr Bueso
0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Morton @ 2014-05-05 20:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Davidlohr Bueso
Cc: Seth Jennings, Weijie Yang, 'Minchan Kim',
'Nitin Gupta', 'Sergey Senozhatsky',
'Bob Liu', 'Dan Streetman',
weijie.yang.kh, heesub.shin, 'linux-kernel',
'Linux-MM'
On Mon, 05 May 2014 11:00:44 -0700 Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> wrote:
> > > @@ -339,12 +338,14 @@ static int zram_decompress_page(struct zram *zram, char *mem, u32 index)
> > > unsigned long handle;
> > > u16 size;
> > >
> > > - read_lock(&meta->tb_lock);
> > > + while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
> > > + cpu_relax();
> > > +
> >
> > So... this might be dumb question, but this looks like a spinlock
> > implementation.
> >
> > What advantage does this have over a standard spinlock?
>
> I was wondering the same thing. Furthermore by doing this you'll loose
> the benefits of sharing the lock... your numbers do indicate that it is
> for the better. Also, note that hopefully rwlock_t will soon be updated
> to be fair and perform up to par with spinlocks, something which is long
> overdue. So you could reduce the critical region by implementing the
> same granularity, just don't implement your own locking schemes, like
> this.
It sounds like seqlocks will match this access pattern pretty well?
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 15+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH] zram: remove global tb_lock by using lock-free CAS
2014-05-05 20:46 ` Andrew Morton
@ 2014-05-05 22:22 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-05-07 7:51 ` Weijie Yang
0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Davidlohr Bueso @ 2014-05-05 22:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: Seth Jennings, Weijie Yang, 'Minchan Kim',
'Nitin Gupta', 'Sergey Senozhatsky',
'Bob Liu', 'Dan Streetman',
weijie.yang.kh, heesub.shin, 'linux-kernel',
'Linux-MM'
On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 13:46 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 05 May 2014 11:00:44 -0700 Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> wrote:
>
> > > > @@ -339,12 +338,14 @@ static int zram_decompress_page(struct zram *zram, char *mem, u32 index)
> > > > unsigned long handle;
> > > > u16 size;
> > > >
> > > > - read_lock(&meta->tb_lock);
> > > > + while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
> > > > + cpu_relax();
> > > > +
> > >
> > > So... this might be dumb question, but this looks like a spinlock
> > > implementation.
> > >
> > > What advantage does this have over a standard spinlock?
> >
> > I was wondering the same thing. Furthermore by doing this you'll loose
> > the benefits of sharing the lock... your numbers do indicate that it is
> > for the better. Also, note that hopefully rwlock_t will soon be updated
> > to be fair and perform up to par with spinlocks, something which is long
> > overdue. So you could reduce the critical region by implementing the
> > same granularity, just don't implement your own locking schemes, like
> > this.
>
> It sounds like seqlocks will match this access pattern pretty well?
Indeed. And after a closer look, except for zram_slot_free_notify(),
that lock is always shared. So, unless fine graining it implies taking
the lock exclusively like in this patch (if so, that needs to be
explicitly documented in the changelog), we would ideally continue to
share it. That _should_ provide nicer performance numbers when using the
correct lock.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 15+ messages in thread
* RE: [PATCH] zram: remove global tb_lock by using lock-free CAS
2014-05-05 22:22 ` Davidlohr Bueso
@ 2014-05-07 7:51 ` Weijie Yang
2014-05-07 8:57 ` Minchan Kim
0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Weijie Yang @ 2014-05-07 7:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'Davidlohr Bueso', 'Andrew Morton'
Cc: 'Seth Jennings', 'Minchan Kim',
'Nitin Gupta', 'Sergey Senozhatsky',
'Bob Liu', 'Dan Streetman',
weijie.yang.kh, heesub.shin, 'linux-kernel',
'Linux-MM'
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 13:46 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Mon, 05 May 2014 11:00:44 -0700 Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> wrote:
>>
>> > > > @@ -339,12 +338,14 @@ static int zram_decompress_page(struct zram *zram, char *mem, u32 index)
>> > > > unsigned long handle;
>> > > > u16 size;
>> > > >
>> > > > - read_lock(&meta->tb_lock);
>> > > > + while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
>> > > > + cpu_relax();
>> > > > +
>> > >
>> > > So... this might be dumb question, but this looks like a spinlock
>> > > implementation.
>> > >
>> > > What advantage does this have over a standard spinlock?
>> >
>> > I was wondering the same thing. Furthermore by doing this you'll loose
>> > the benefits of sharing the lock... your numbers do indicate that it is
>> > for the better. Also, note that hopefully rwlock_t will soon be updated
>> > to be fair and perform up to par with spinlocks, something which is long
>> > overdue. So you could reduce the critical region by implementing the
>> > same granularity, just don't implement your own locking schemes, like
>> > this.
Actually, the main reason I use a CAS rather than a standard lock here is
that I want to minimize the meta table memory overhead. A tiny reason is
my fuzzy memory that CAS is more efficient than spinlock (please correct me
if I am wrong).
Anyway, I changed the CAS to spinlock and rwlock, re-test them:
Test lock-free spinlock rwlock
------------------------------------------------------
Initial write 1424141.62 1426372.84 1423019.21
Rewrite 1652504.81 1623307.14 1653682.04
Read 11404668.35 11242885.05 10938125.00
Re-read 11555483.75 11253906.6 10837773.50
Reverse Read 8394478.17 8277250.34 7768057.39
Stride read 9372229.95 9010498.53 8692871.77
Random read 9187221.90 8988080.55 8661184.60
Mixed workload 5843370.85 5414729.54 5451055.03
Random write 1608947.04 1572276.64 1588866.51
Pwrite 1311055.32 1302463.04 1302001.06
Pread 4652056.11 4555802.18 4469672.34
And I cann't say which one is the best, they have the similar performance.
Wait, iozone will create temporary files for every test thread, so there is no
possibility that these threads access the same table[index] concurrenctly.
So, I use fio to test the raw zram block device.
To enhance the possibility of access the same table[index] conflictly, I set zram
with a small disksize(10M) and let thread run with large loop count.
On the same test machine, the fio test command is:
fio --bs=32k --randrepeat=1 --randseed=100 --refill_buffers
--scramble_buffers=1 --direct=1 --loops=3000 --numjobs=4
--filename=/dev/zram0 --name=seq-write --rw=write --stonewall
--name=seq-read --rw=read --stonewall --name=seq-readwrite
--rw=rw --stonewall --name=rand-readwrite --rw=randrw --stonewall
Test base lock-free spinlock rwlock
------------------------------------------------------
seq-write 935109.2 999580.5 998134.8 994384.6
seq-read 5598064.6 6444011.5 6243184.6 6197514.2
seq-rw 1403963.0 1635673.0 1633823.0 1635972.2
rand-rw 1389864.4 1612520.4 1613403.6 1612129.8
This result(KB/s, average of 5 tests) shows the performance improvement
on base version, however, I cann't say which method is the best.
>>
>> It sounds like seqlocks will match this access pattern pretty well?
>
> Indeed. And after a closer look, except for zram_slot_free_notify(),
> that lock is always shared. So, unless fine graining it implies taking
> the lock exclusively like in this patch (if so, that needs to be
> explicitly documented in the changelog), we would ideally continue to
> share it. That _should_ provide nicer performance numbers when using the
> correct lock.
>
Andrew mentioned seqlocks, however, I think it is hard the use seqlocks here
after I recheck the codes. No matter use it as a meta global lock or a
table[index] lock. The main reason is the writer will free the handle rather than
just change some value.
If I misunderstand you, please let me know.
Now, I am in a delimma. For minimizing the memory overhead, I like to use CAS.
However, it is not a standard way.
Any complaint or suggestions are welcomed.
Regards,
>
>
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 15+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH] zram: remove global tb_lock by using lock-free CAS
2014-05-07 7:51 ` Weijie Yang
@ 2014-05-07 8:57 ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-07 9:16 ` Weijie Yang
0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Minchan Kim @ 2014-05-07 8:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Weijie Yang
Cc: 'Davidlohr Bueso', 'Andrew Morton',
'Seth Jennings', 'Nitin Gupta',
'Sergey Senozhatsky', 'Bob Liu',
'Dan Streetman',
weijie.yang.kh, heesub.shin, 'linux-kernel',
'Linux-MM'
On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 03:51:35PM +0800, Weijie Yang wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 13:46 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> On Mon, 05 May 2014 11:00:44 -0700 Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > > > @@ -339,12 +338,14 @@ static int zram_decompress_page(struct zram *zram, char *mem, u32 index)
> >> > > > unsigned long handle;
> >> > > > u16 size;
> >> > > >
> >> > > > - read_lock(&meta->tb_lock);
> >> > > > + while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
> >> > > > + cpu_relax();
> >> > > > +
> >> > >
> >> > > So... this might be dumb question, but this looks like a spinlock
> >> > > implementation.
> >> > >
> >> > > What advantage does this have over a standard spinlock?
> >> >
> >> > I was wondering the same thing. Furthermore by doing this you'll loose
> >> > the benefits of sharing the lock... your numbers do indicate that it is
> >> > for the better. Also, note that hopefully rwlock_t will soon be updated
> >> > to be fair and perform up to par with spinlocks, something which is long
> >> > overdue. So you could reduce the critical region by implementing the
> >> > same granularity, just don't implement your own locking schemes, like
> >> > this.
>
> Actually, the main reason I use a CAS rather than a standard lock here is
> that I want to minimize the meta table memory overhead. A tiny reason is
> my fuzzy memory that CAS is more efficient than spinlock (please correct me
> if I am wrong).
>
> Anyway, I changed the CAS to spinlock and rwlock, re-test them:
>
> Test lock-free spinlock rwlock
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Initial write 1424141.62 1426372.84 1423019.21
> Rewrite 1652504.81 1623307.14 1653682.04
> Read 11404668.35 11242885.05 10938125.00
> Re-read 11555483.75 11253906.6 10837773.50
> Reverse Read 8394478.17 8277250.34 7768057.39
> Stride read 9372229.95 9010498.53 8692871.77
> Random read 9187221.90 8988080.55 8661184.60
> Mixed workload 5843370.85 5414729.54 5451055.03
> Random write 1608947.04 1572276.64 1588866.51
> Pwrite 1311055.32 1302463.04 1302001.06
> Pread 4652056.11 4555802.18 4469672.34
I'd like to clear it out.
The spinlock and rwlock you mentioned is per-meta entry lock like state
you added or global lock for meta? If it's latter, rwlock means base?
>
> And I cann't say which one is the best, they have the similar performance.
Most popular use of zram is the in-memory swap for small embedded system
so I don't want to increase memory footprint without good reason although
it makes synthetic benchmark. Alhought it's 1M for 1G, it isn't small if we
consider compression ratio and real free memory after boot(But data I have
an interest is mixed workload enhancement. It would be important for heavy
memory pressure for latency so it attractives me a lot. Anyway, I need number
for back up the justification with real swap usecase rather than zram-blk.
Recently, I have considered per-process reclaim based on zram so maybe I will
have a test for that).
But recently, I have received private mail from some server folks to use
zram-blk, not zram-swap so in case of that, such enhancement would be
desirable so my point is I'm not saying the drop of the patch and let's
find proper solution to meet both and gather more data.
>
> Wait, iozone will create temporary files for every test thread, so there is no
> possibility that these threads access the same table[index] concurrenctly.
> So, I use fio to test the raw zram block device.
> To enhance the possibility of access the same table[index] conflictly, I set zram
> with a small disksize(10M) and let thread run with large loop count.
>
> On the same test machine, the fio test command is:
> fio --bs=32k --randrepeat=1 --randseed=100 --refill_buffers
> --scramble_buffers=1 --direct=1 --loops=3000 --numjobs=4
> --filename=/dev/zram0 --name=seq-write --rw=write --stonewall
> --name=seq-read --rw=read --stonewall --name=seq-readwrite
> --rw=rw --stonewall --name=rand-readwrite --rw=randrw --stonewall
>
> Test base lock-free spinlock rwlock
> ------------------------------------------------------
> seq-write 935109.2 999580.5 998134.8 994384.6
> seq-read 5598064.6 6444011.5 6243184.6 6197514.2
> seq-rw 1403963.0 1635673.0 1633823.0 1635972.2
> rand-rw 1389864.4 1612520.4 1613403.6 1612129.8
What's the difference between base and rwlock?
Base means global rwlock while rwlock means per-meta entry rwlock?
>
> This result(KB/s, average of 5 tests) shows the performance improvement
> on base version, however, I cann't say which method is the best.
>
> >>
> >> It sounds like seqlocks will match this access pattern pretty well?
> >
> > Indeed. And after a closer look, except for zram_slot_free_notify(),
> > that lock is always shared. So, unless fine graining it implies taking
> > the lock exclusively like in this patch (if so, that needs to be
> > explicitly documented in the changelog), we would ideally continue to
> > share it. That _should_ provide nicer performance numbers when using the
> > correct lock.
> >
>
> Andrew mentioned seqlocks, however, I think it is hard the use seqlocks here
> after I recheck the codes. No matter use it as a meta global lock or a
> table[index] lock. The main reason is the writer will free the handle rather than
> just change some value.
> If I misunderstand you, please let me know.
>
> Now, I am in a delimma. For minimizing the memory overhead, I like to use CAS.
> However, it is not a standard way.
>
> Any complaint or suggestions are welcomed.
>
> Regards,
>
> >
> >
>
>
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* Re: [PATCH] zram: remove global tb_lock by using lock-free CAS
2014-05-07 8:57 ` Minchan Kim
@ 2014-05-07 9:16 ` Weijie Yang
2014-05-07 14:52 ` Joonsoo Kim
0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Weijie Yang @ 2014-05-07 9:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Minchan Kim
Cc: Weijie Yang, Davidlohr Bueso, Andrew Morton, Seth Jennings,
Nitin Gupta, Sergey Senozhatsky, Bob Liu, Dan Streetman,
Heesub Shin, linux-kernel, Linux-MM
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 03:51:35PM +0800, Weijie Yang wrote:
>> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 13:46 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> >> On Mon, 05 May 2014 11:00:44 -0700 Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > > > @@ -339,12 +338,14 @@ static int zram_decompress_page(struct zram *zram, char *mem, u32 index)
>> >> > > > unsigned long handle;
>> >> > > > u16 size;
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > - read_lock(&meta->tb_lock);
>> >> > > > + while(atomic_cmpxchg(&meta->table[index].state, IDLE, ACCESS) != IDLE)
>> >> > > > + cpu_relax();
>> >> > > > +
>> >> > >
>> >> > > So... this might be dumb question, but this looks like a spinlock
>> >> > > implementation.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > What advantage does this have over a standard spinlock?
>> >> >
>> >> > I was wondering the same thing. Furthermore by doing this you'll loose
>> >> > the benefits of sharing the lock... your numbers do indicate that it is
>> >> > for the better. Also, note that hopefully rwlock_t will soon be updated
>> >> > to be fair and perform up to par with spinlocks, something which is long
>> >> > overdue. So you could reduce the critical region by implementing the
>> >> > same granularity, just don't implement your own locking schemes, like
>> >> > this.
>>
>> Actually, the main reason I use a CAS rather than a standard lock here is
>> that I want to minimize the meta table memory overhead. A tiny reason is
>> my fuzzy memory that CAS is more efficient than spinlock (please correct me
>> if I am wrong).
>>
>> Anyway, I changed the CAS to spinlock and rwlock, re-test them:
>>
>> Test lock-free spinlock rwlock
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>> Initial write 1424141.62 1426372.84 1423019.21
>> Rewrite 1652504.81 1623307.14 1653682.04
>> Read 11404668.35 11242885.05 10938125.00
>> Re-read 11555483.75 11253906.6 10837773.50
>> Reverse Read 8394478.17 8277250.34 7768057.39
>> Stride read 9372229.95 9010498.53 8692871.77
>> Random read 9187221.90 8988080.55 8661184.60
>> Mixed workload 5843370.85 5414729.54 5451055.03
>> Random write 1608947.04 1572276.64 1588866.51
>> Pwrite 1311055.32 1302463.04 1302001.06
>> Pread 4652056.11 4555802.18 4469672.34
>
> I'd like to clear it out.
> The spinlock and rwlock you mentioned is per-meta entry lock like state
> you added or global lock for meta? If it's latter, rwlock means base?
The spinlock and rwlock is per-meta entry lock like state.
Because the base data is added in the first mail, I don't mention
them here.
>>
>> And I cann't say which one is the best, they have the similar performance.
>
> Most popular use of zram is the in-memory swap for small embedded system
> so I don't want to increase memory footprint without good reason although
> it makes synthetic benchmark. Alhought it's 1M for 1G, it isn't small if we
> consider compression ratio and real free memory after boot(But data I have
> an interest is mixed workload enhancement. It would be important for heavy
> memory pressure for latency so it attractives me a lot. Anyway, I need number
> for back up the justification with real swap usecase rather than zram-blk.
> Recently, I have considered per-process reclaim based on zram so maybe I will
> have a test for that).
> But recently, I have received private mail from some server folks to use
> zram-blk, not zram-swap so in case of that, such enhancement would be
> desirable so my point is I'm not saying the drop of the patch and let's
> find proper solution to meet both and gather more data.
>
>>
>> Wait, iozone will create temporary files for every test thread, so there is no
>> possibility that these threads access the same table[index] concurrenctly.
>> So, I use fio to test the raw zram block device.
>> To enhance the possibility of access the same table[index] conflictly, I set zram
>> with a small disksize(10M) and let thread run with large loop count.
>>
>> On the same test machine, the fio test command is:
>> fio --bs=32k --randrepeat=1 --randseed=100 --refill_buffers
>> --scramble_buffers=1 --direct=1 --loops=3000 --numjobs=4
>> --filename=/dev/zram0 --name=seq-write --rw=write --stonewall
>> --name=seq-read --rw=read --stonewall --name=seq-readwrite
>> --rw=rw --stonewall --name=rand-readwrite --rw=randrw --stonewall
>>
>> Test base lock-free spinlock rwlock
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>> seq-write 935109.2 999580.5 998134.8 994384.6
>> seq-read 5598064.6 6444011.5 6243184.6 6197514.2
>> seq-rw 1403963.0 1635673.0 1633823.0 1635972.2
>> rand-rw 1389864.4 1612520.4 1613403.6 1612129.8
>
> What's the difference between base and rwlock?
> Base means global rwlock while rwlock means per-meta entry rwlock?
>
Base means global rwlock, it is the 3.15.0-rc3 code.
rwlock means per-meta entry rwlock.
Sorry to confuse you.
>>
>> This result(KB/s, average of 5 tests) shows the performance improvement
>> on base version, however, I cann't say which method is the best.
>>
>> >>
>> >> It sounds like seqlocks will match this access pattern pretty well?
>> >
>> > Indeed. And after a closer look, except for zram_slot_free_notify(),
>> > that lock is always shared. So, unless fine graining it implies taking
>> > the lock exclusively like in this patch (if so, that needs to be
>> > explicitly documented in the changelog), we would ideally continue to
>> > share it. That _should_ provide nicer performance numbers when using the
>> > correct lock.
>> >
>>
>> Andrew mentioned seqlocks, however, I think it is hard the use seqlocks here
>> after I recheck the codes. No matter use it as a meta global lock or a
>> table[index] lock. The main reason is the writer will free the handle rather than
>> just change some value.
>> If I misunderstand you, please let me know.
>>
>> Now, I am in a delimma. For minimizing the memory overhead, I like to use CAS.
>> However, it is not a standard way.
>>
>> Any complaint or suggestions are welcomed.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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* Re: [PATCH] zram: remove global tb_lock by using lock-free CAS
2014-05-07 9:16 ` Weijie Yang
@ 2014-05-07 14:52 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-08 6:24 ` Minchan Kim
0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Joonsoo Kim @ 2014-05-07 14:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Weijie Yang
Cc: Minchan Kim, Weijie Yang, Davidlohr Bueso, Andrew Morton,
Seth Jennings, Nitin Gupta, Sergey Senozhatsky, Bob Liu,
Dan Streetman, Heesub Shin, linux-kernel, Linux-MM
>> Most popular use of zram is the in-memory swap for small embedded system
>> so I don't want to increase memory footprint without good reason although
>> it makes synthetic benchmark. Alhought it's 1M for 1G, it isn't small if we
>> consider compression ratio and real free memory after boot
We can use bit spin lock and this would not increase memory footprint for 32 bit
platform.
Thanks.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 15+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH] zram: remove global tb_lock by using lock-free CAS
2014-05-07 14:52 ` Joonsoo Kim
@ 2014-05-08 6:24 ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-10 6:10 ` Weijie Yang
0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Minchan Kim @ 2014-05-08 6:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Weijie Yang, Weijie Yang, Davidlohr Bueso, Andrew Morton,
Seth Jennings, Nitin Gupta, Sergey Senozhatsky, Bob Liu,
Dan Streetman, Heesub Shin, linux-kernel, Linux-MM
On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 11:52:59PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> >> Most popular use of zram is the in-memory swap for small embedded system
> >> so I don't want to increase memory footprint without good reason although
> >> it makes synthetic benchmark. Alhought it's 1M for 1G, it isn't small if we
> >> consider compression ratio and real free memory after boot
>
> We can use bit spin lock and this would not increase memory footprint for 32 bit
> platform.
Sounds like a idea.
Weijie, Do you mind testing with bit spin lock?
>
> Thanks.
>
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* RE: [PATCH] zram: remove global tb_lock by using lock-free CAS
2014-05-08 6:24 ` Minchan Kim
@ 2014-05-10 6:10 ` Weijie Yang
2014-05-12 5:15 ` Minchan Kim
0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Weijie Yang @ 2014-05-10 6:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'Minchan Kim', 'Joonsoo Kim'
Cc: 'Weijie Yang', 'Davidlohr Bueso',
'Andrew Morton', 'Seth Jennings',
'Nitin Gupta', 'Sergey Senozhatsky',
'Bob Liu', 'Dan Streetman', 'Heesub Shin',
'linux-kernel', 'Linux-MM'
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 11:52:59PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
>> >> Most popular use of zram is the in-memory swap for small embedded system
>> >> so I don't want to increase memory footprint without good reason although
>> >> it makes synthetic benchmark. Alhought it's 1M for 1G, it isn't small if we
>> >> consider compression ratio and real free memory after boot
>>
>> We can use bit spin lock and this would not increase memory footprint for 32 bit
>> platform.
>
> Sounds like a idea.
> Weijie, Do you mind testing with bit spin lock?
Yes, I re-test them.
This time, I test each case 10 times, and take the average(KS/s).
(the test machine and method are same like previous mail's)
Iozone test result:
Test BASE CAS spinlock rwlock bit_spinlock
--------------------------------------------------------------
Initial write 1381094 1425435 1422860 1423075 1421521
Rewrite 1529479 1641199 1668762 1672855 1654910
Read 8468009 11324979 11305569 11117273 10997202
Re-read 8467476 11260914 11248059 11145336 10906486
Reverse Read 6821393 8106334 8282174 8279195 8109186
Stride read 7191093 8994306 9153982 8961224 9004434
Random read 7156353 8957932 9167098 8980465 8940476
Mixed workload 4172747 5680814 5927825 5489578 5972253
Random write 1483044 1605588 1594329 1600453 1596010
Pwrite 1276644 1303108 1311612 1314228 1300960
Pread 4324337 4632869 4618386 4457870 4500166
Fio test result:
Test base CAS spinlock rwlock bit_spinlock
-------------------------------------------------------------
seq-write 933789 999357 1003298 995961 1001958
seq-read 5634130 6577930 6380861 6243912 6230006
seq-rw 1405687 1638117 1640256 1633903 1634459
rand-rw 1386119 1614664 1617211 1609267 1612471
The base is v3.15.0-rc3, the others are per-meta entry lock.
Every optimization method shows higher performance than the base, however,
it is hard to say which method is the most appropriate.
To bit_spinlock, the modified code is mainly like this:
+#define ZRAM_FLAG_SHIFT 16
+
enum zram_pageflags {
/* Page consists entirely of zeros */
- ZRAM_ZERO,
+ ZRAM_ZERO = ZRAM_FLAG_SHIFT + 1,
+ ZRAM_ACCESS,
__NR_ZRAM_PAGEFLAGS,
};
/* Allocated for each disk page */
struct table {
unsigned long handle;
- u16 size; /* object size (excluding header) */
- u8 flags;
+ unsigned long value;
} __aligned(4);
The lower ZRAM_FLAG_SHIFT bits of table.value is size, the higher bits
is for zram_pageflags. By this means, it doesn't increase any memory
overhead on both 32-bit and 64-bit system.
Any complaint or suggestions are welcomed.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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* Re: [PATCH] zram: remove global tb_lock by using lock-free CAS
2014-05-10 6:10 ` Weijie Yang
@ 2014-05-12 5:15 ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-12 14:49 ` Davidlohr Bueso
0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Minchan Kim @ 2014-05-12 5:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Weijie Yang
Cc: 'Joonsoo Kim', 'Weijie Yang',
'Davidlohr Bueso', 'Andrew Morton',
'Seth Jennings', 'Nitin Gupta',
'Sergey Senozhatsky', 'Bob Liu',
'Dan Streetman', 'Heesub Shin',
'linux-kernel', 'Linux-MM'
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 02:10:08PM +0800, Weijie Yang wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 11:52:59PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> >> >> Most popular use of zram is the in-memory swap for small embedded system
> >> >> so I don't want to increase memory footprint without good reason although
> >> >> it makes synthetic benchmark. Alhought it's 1M for 1G, it isn't small if we
> >> >> consider compression ratio and real free memory after boot
> >>
> >> We can use bit spin lock and this would not increase memory footprint for 32 bit
> >> platform.
> >
> > Sounds like a idea.
> > Weijie, Do you mind testing with bit spin lock?
>
> Yes, I re-test them.
> This time, I test each case 10 times, and take the average(KS/s).
> (the test machine and method are same like previous mail's)
>
> Iozone test result:
>
> Test BASE CAS spinlock rwlock bit_spinlock
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Initial write 1381094 1425435 1422860 1423075 1421521
> Rewrite 1529479 1641199 1668762 1672855 1654910
> Read 8468009 11324979 11305569 11117273 10997202
> Re-read 8467476 11260914 11248059 11145336 10906486
> Reverse Read 6821393 8106334 8282174 8279195 8109186
> Stride read 7191093 8994306 9153982 8961224 9004434
> Random read 7156353 8957932 9167098 8980465 8940476
> Mixed workload 4172747 5680814 5927825 5489578 5972253
> Random write 1483044 1605588 1594329 1600453 1596010
> Pwrite 1276644 1303108 1311612 1314228 1300960
> Pread 4324337 4632869 4618386 4457870 4500166
>
> Fio test result:
>
> Test base CAS spinlock rwlock bit_spinlock
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> seq-write 933789 999357 1003298 995961 1001958
> seq-read 5634130 6577930 6380861 6243912 6230006
> seq-rw 1405687 1638117 1640256 1633903 1634459
> rand-rw 1386119 1614664 1617211 1609267 1612471
>
>
> The base is v3.15.0-rc3, the others are per-meta entry lock.
> Every optimization method shows higher performance than the base, however,
> it is hard to say which method is the most appropriate.
It's not too big between CAS and bit_spinlock so I prefer general method.
>
> To bit_spinlock, the modified code is mainly like this:
>
> +#define ZRAM_FLAG_SHIFT 16
> +
> enum zram_pageflags {
> /* Page consists entirely of zeros */
> - ZRAM_ZERO,
> + ZRAM_ZERO = ZRAM_FLAG_SHIFT + 1,
> + ZRAM_ACCESS,
>
> __NR_ZRAM_PAGEFLAGS,
> };
>
> /* Allocated for each disk page */
> struct table {
> unsigned long handle;
> - u16 size; /* object size (excluding header) */
> - u8 flags;
> + unsigned long value;
Why does we need to change flags and size "unsigned long value"?
Couldn't we use existing flags with just adding new ZRAM_TABLE_LOCK?
> } __aligned(4);
>
> The lower ZRAM_FLAG_SHIFT bits of table.value is size, the higher bits
> is for zram_pageflags. By this means, it doesn't increase any memory
> overhead on both 32-bit and 64-bit system.
>
> Any complaint or suggestions are welcomed.
Anyway, I'd like to go this way.
Pz, resend formal patch with a number.
Thanks!
>
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
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>
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* Re: [PATCH] zram: remove global tb_lock by using lock-free CAS
2014-05-12 5:15 ` Minchan Kim
@ 2014-05-12 14:49 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-05-13 0:03 ` Minchan Kim
0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Davidlohr Bueso @ 2014-05-12 14:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Minchan Kim
Cc: Weijie Yang, 'Joonsoo Kim', 'Weijie Yang',
'Andrew Morton', 'Seth Jennings',
'Nitin Gupta', 'Sergey Senozhatsky',
'Bob Liu', 'Dan Streetman', 'Heesub Shin',
'linux-kernel', 'Linux-MM'
On Mon, 2014-05-12 at 14:15 +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 02:10:08PM +0800, Weijie Yang wrote:
> > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 11:52:59PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> > >> >> Most popular use of zram is the in-memory swap for small embedded system
> > >> >> so I don't want to increase memory footprint without good reason although
> > >> >> it makes synthetic benchmark. Alhought it's 1M for 1G, it isn't small if we
> > >> >> consider compression ratio and real free memory after boot
> > >>
> > >> We can use bit spin lock and this would not increase memory footprint for 32 bit
> > >> platform.
> > >
> > > Sounds like a idea.
> > > Weijie, Do you mind testing with bit spin lock?
> >
> > Yes, I re-test them.
> > This time, I test each case 10 times, and take the average(KS/s).
> > (the test machine and method are same like previous mail's)
> >
> > Iozone test result:
> >
> > Test BASE CAS spinlock rwlock bit_spinlock
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > Initial write 1381094 1425435 1422860 1423075 1421521
> > Rewrite 1529479 1641199 1668762 1672855 1654910
> > Read 8468009 11324979 11305569 11117273 10997202
> > Re-read 8467476 11260914 11248059 11145336 10906486
> > Reverse Read 6821393 8106334 8282174 8279195 8109186
> > Stride read 7191093 8994306 9153982 8961224 9004434
> > Random read 7156353 8957932 9167098 8980465 8940476
> > Mixed workload 4172747 5680814 5927825 5489578 5972253
> > Random write 1483044 1605588 1594329 1600453 1596010
> > Pwrite 1276644 1303108 1311612 1314228 1300960
> > Pread 4324337 4632869 4618386 4457870 4500166
> >
> > Fio test result:
> >
> > Test base CAS spinlock rwlock bit_spinlock
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > seq-write 933789 999357 1003298 995961 1001958
> > seq-read 5634130 6577930 6380861 6243912 6230006
> > seq-rw 1405687 1638117 1640256 1633903 1634459
> > rand-rw 1386119 1614664 1617211 1609267 1612471
> >
> >
> > The base is v3.15.0-rc3, the others are per-meta entry lock.
> > Every optimization method shows higher performance than the base, however,
> > it is hard to say which method is the most appropriate.
>
> It's not too big between CAS and bit_spinlock so I prefer general method.
Well, I imagine that's because the test system is small enough that the
lock is not stressed enough. Bit spinlocks are considerably slower than
other types. I'm not sure if we really care for the case of zram, but in
general I really dislike this lock. It suffers from just about
everything our regular spinlocks try to optimize, specially unfairness
in who gets the lock when contended (ticketing).
Thanks,
Davidlohr
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 15+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH] zram: remove global tb_lock by using lock-free CAS
2014-05-12 14:49 ` Davidlohr Bueso
@ 2014-05-13 0:03 ` Minchan Kim
0 siblings, 0 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: Minchan Kim @ 2014-05-13 0:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Davidlohr Bueso
Cc: Weijie Yang, 'Joonsoo Kim', 'Weijie Yang',
'Andrew Morton', 'Seth Jennings',
'Nitin Gupta', 'Sergey Senozhatsky',
'Bob Liu', 'Dan Streetman', 'Heesub Shin',
'linux-kernel', 'Linux-MM'
Hello David,
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 07:49:18AM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-05-12 at 14:15 +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 02:10:08PM +0800, Weijie Yang wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 11:52:59PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> > > >> >> Most popular use of zram is the in-memory swap for small embedded system
> > > >> >> so I don't want to increase memory footprint without good reason although
> > > >> >> it makes synthetic benchmark. Alhought it's 1M for 1G, it isn't small if we
> > > >> >> consider compression ratio and real free memory after boot
> > > >>
> > > >> We can use bit spin lock and this would not increase memory footprint for 32 bit
> > > >> platform.
> > > >
> > > > Sounds like a idea.
> > > > Weijie, Do you mind testing with bit spin lock?
> > >
> > > Yes, I re-test them.
> > > This time, I test each case 10 times, and take the average(KS/s).
> > > (the test machine and method are same like previous mail's)
> > >
> > > Iozone test result:
> > >
> > > Test BASE CAS spinlock rwlock bit_spinlock
> > > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Initial write 1381094 1425435 1422860 1423075 1421521
> > > Rewrite 1529479 1641199 1668762 1672855 1654910
> > > Read 8468009 11324979 11305569 11117273 10997202
> > > Re-read 8467476 11260914 11248059 11145336 10906486
> > > Reverse Read 6821393 8106334 8282174 8279195 8109186
> > > Stride read 7191093 8994306 9153982 8961224 9004434
> > > Random read 7156353 8957932 9167098 8980465 8940476
> > > Mixed workload 4172747 5680814 5927825 5489578 5972253
> > > Random write 1483044 1605588 1594329 1600453 1596010
> > > Pwrite 1276644 1303108 1311612 1314228 1300960
> > > Pread 4324337 4632869 4618386 4457870 4500166
> > >
> > > Fio test result:
> > >
> > > Test base CAS spinlock rwlock bit_spinlock
> > > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > > seq-write 933789 999357 1003298 995961 1001958
> > > seq-read 5634130 6577930 6380861 6243912 6230006
> > > seq-rw 1405687 1638117 1640256 1633903 1634459
> > > rand-rw 1386119 1614664 1617211 1609267 1612471
> > >
> > >
> > > The base is v3.15.0-rc3, the others are per-meta entry lock.
> > > Every optimization method shows higher performance than the base, however,
> > > it is hard to say which method is the most appropriate.
> >
> > It's not too big between CAS and bit_spinlock so I prefer general method.
>
> Well, I imagine that's because the test system is small enough that the
> lock is not stressed enough. Bit spinlocks are considerably slower than
> other types. I'm not sure if we really care for the case of zram, but in
> general I really dislike this lock. It suffers from just about
> everything our regular spinlocks try to optimize, specially unfairness
> in who gets the lock when contended (ticketing).
But as you said, in general, you're right but it's not the case for zram.
Most popular zram usecase is in-memory swap for small embedded system(at most,
4 CPU, even, they don't turn on always) so I believe lock contention
(concurrent swapout of same slot? concurrent swapread of same slot)
is too much rare(ie, actually it wouldn't happen by upper layer's lock).
Another usecase zram-blk, yeb, thesedays, some guys start to use zram as block
device but it would be same with zram-swap because upper layer(ex, file system)
would already have a lock to prevent concurrent access of the block so
contention would be rare, too.
I don't want to bloat zram's memory footprint for minor usecase, even, without
real report with the number. We have reasonable rationale to use bit_spin_lock
like above.
>
> Thanks,
> Davidlohr
>
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