[PATCHv4 0/9] zram: Support multiple compression streams

From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Subject: [PATCHv4 0/9] zram: Support multiple compression streams
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:55:24 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221018045533.2396670-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org> (raw)

Hello,

	This series adds support for multiple (per-CPU)
compression streams (at point only 2). The main idea is that
different compression algorithms have different characteristics
and zram may benefit when it uses a combination of algorithms:
a default algorithm that is faster but have lower compression
rate and a secondary algorithm that can use higher compression
rate at a price of slower compression/decompression.

	There are several use-case for this functionality:

- huge pages re-compression: zstd or deflate can successfully
compress huge pages (~50% of huge pages on my synthetic ChromeOS
tests), IOW pages that lzo was not able to compress.

- idle pages re-compression: idle/cold pages sit in the memory
and we may reduce zsmalloc memory usage if we recompress those
idle pages.

	User-space has a number of ways to control the behavior
and impact of zram recompression: what type of pages should be
recompressed, size watermarks, etc. Please refer to documentation
patch.

v4:
-- added IS_ERR_VALUE patch (Andrew)
-- documented SIZE units (bytes) (Andrew)
-- re-phrased writeback BIO error comment (Andrew)
-- return zs_malloc() error code from zram_recompress()
-- do not lose zram_recompress() error in recompress_store()
-- corrected a typo
-- fixed previous rebase errors
-- rebased the series

v3:
-- conditionally reschedule during recompression loop so that
   we don't stall RCU grace periods
-- fixed a false-positive WARN_ON

v2:
-- rebased
-- mark completely incompressible pages (neither default nor secondary
   algorithm can compress them) with a new flag so that we don't attempt
   to recompress them all the time

Sergey Senozhatsky (9):
  zram: Preparation for multi-zcomp support
  zram: Add recompression algorithm sysfs knob
  zram: Factor out WB and non-WB zram read functions
  zram: Introduce recompress sysfs knob
  documentation: Add recompression documentation
  zram: Add recompression algorithm choice to Kconfig
  zram: Add recompress flag to read_block_state()
  zram: Clarify writeback_store() comment
  zram: Use IS_ERR_VALUE() to check for zs_malloc() errors

 Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst |  64 ++-
 drivers/block/zram/Kconfig                  |  55 +++
 drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c                  |   6 +-
 drivers/block/zram/zcomp.h                  |   2 +-
 drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c               | 458 +++++++++++++++++---
 drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h               |  16 +-
 6 files changed, 526 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)

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