staging: zcache: zero-filled pages awareness
Compression of zero-filled pages can unneccessarily cause internal
fragmentation, and thus waste memory. This special case can be
optimized.
This patch captures zero-filled pages, and marks their corresponding
zcache backing page entry as zero-filled. Whenever such zero-filled
page is retrieved, we fill the page frame with zero.
Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c b/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
index 274a48e..927d5fd 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
@@ -61,6 +61,12 @@
}
#endif
+/*
+ * mark pampd to special value in order that later
+ * retrieve will identify zero-filled pages
+ */
+#define ZERO_FILLED 0x2
+
/* enable (or fix code) when Seth's patches are accepted upstream */
#define zcache_writeback_enabled 0
@@ -277,17 +283,23 @@
kmem_cache_free(zcache_obj_cache, obj);
}
-static bool page_is_zero_filled(void *ptr)
+/*
+ * Compressing zero-filled pages will waste memory and introduce
+ * serious fragmentation, skip it to avoid overhead.
+ */
+static bool page_is_zero_filled(struct page *p)
{
unsigned int pos;
- unsigned long *page;
+ char *page;
- page = (unsigned long *)ptr;
-
+ page = kmap_atomic(p);
for (pos = 0; pos < PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(*page); pos++) {
- if (page[pos])
+ if (page[pos]) {
+ kunmap_atomic(page);
return false;
+ }
}
+ kunmap_atomic(page);
return true;
}
@@ -356,8 +368,15 @@
{
void *pampd = NULL, *cdata = data;
unsigned clen = size;
+ bool zero_filled = false;
struct page *page = (struct page *)(data), *newpage;
+ if (page_is_zero_filled(page)) {
+ clen = 0;
+ zero_filled = true;
+ goto got_pampd;
+ }
+
if (!raw) {
zcache_compress(page, &cdata, &clen);
if (clen > zbud_max_buddy_size()) {
@@ -397,6 +416,8 @@
inc_zcache_eph_zpages();
if (ramster_enabled && raw)
ramster_count_foreign_pages(true, 1);
+ if (zero_filled)
+ pampd = (void *)ZERO_FILLED;
out:
return pampd;
}
@@ -406,6 +427,7 @@
{
void *pampd = NULL, *cdata = data;
unsigned clen = size;
+ bool zero_filled = false;
struct page *page = (struct page *)(data), *newpage;
unsigned long zbud_mean_zsize;
unsigned long curr_pers_zpages, total_zsize;
@@ -414,6 +436,13 @@
BUG_ON(!ramster_enabled);
goto create_pampd;
}
+
+ if (page_is_zero_filled(page)) {
+ clen = 0;
+ zero_filled = true;
+ goto got_pampd;
+ }
+
curr_pers_zpages = zcache_pers_zpages;
/* FIXME CONFIG_RAMSTER... subtract atomic remote_pers_pages here? */
if (!raw)
@@ -471,6 +500,8 @@
inc_zcache_pers_zbytes(clen);
if (ramster_enabled && raw)
ramster_count_foreign_pages(false, 1);
+ if (zero_filled)
+ pampd = (void *)ZERO_FILLED;
out:
return pampd;
}
@@ -532,7 +563,8 @@
*/
void zcache_pampd_create_finish(void *pampd, bool eph)
{
- zbud_create_finish((struct zbudref *)pampd, eph);
+ if (pampd != (void *)ZERO_FILLED)
+ zbud_create_finish((struct zbudref *)pampd, eph);
}
/*
@@ -577,6 +609,14 @@
BUG_ON(preemptible());
BUG_ON(eph); /* fix later if shared pools get implemented */
BUG_ON(pampd_is_remote(pampd));
+
+ if (pampd == (void *)ZERO_FILLED) {
+ handle_zero_filled_page(data);
+ if (!raw)
+ *sizep = PAGE_SIZE;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
if (raw)
ret = zbud_copy_from_zbud(data, (struct zbudref *)pampd,
sizep, eph);
@@ -597,13 +637,22 @@
void *pampd, struct tmem_pool *pool,
struct tmem_oid *oid, uint32_t index)
{
- int ret;
- bool eph = !is_persistent(pool);
+ int ret = 0;
+ bool eph = !is_persistent(pool), zero_filled = false;
struct page *page = NULL;
unsigned int zsize, zpages;
BUG_ON(preemptible());
BUG_ON(pampd_is_remote(pampd));
+
+ if (pampd == (void *)ZERO_FILLED) {
+ handle_zero_filled_page(data);
+ zero_filled = true;
+ if (!raw)
+ *sizep = PAGE_SIZE;
+ goto zero_fill;
+ }
+
if (raw)
ret = zbud_copy_from_zbud(data, (struct zbudref *)pampd,
sizep, eph);
@@ -615,6 +664,7 @@
}
page = zbud_free_and_delist((struct zbudref *)pampd, eph,
&zsize, &zpages);
+zero_fill:
if (eph) {
if (page)
dec_zcache_eph_pageframes();
@@ -628,7 +678,7 @@
}
if (!is_local_client(pool->client))
ramster_count_foreign_pages(eph, -1);
- if (page)
+ if (page && !zero_filled)
zcache_free_page(page);
return ret;
}
@@ -642,16 +692,22 @@
{
struct page *page = NULL;
unsigned int zsize, zpages;
+ bool zero_filled = false;
BUG_ON(preemptible());
- if (pampd_is_remote(pampd)) {
+
+ if (pampd == (void *)ZERO_FILLED)
+ zero_filled = true;
+
+ if (pampd_is_remote(pampd) && !zero_filled) {
BUG_ON(!ramster_enabled);
pampd = ramster_pampd_free(pampd, pool, oid, index, acct);
if (pampd == NULL)
return;
}
if (is_ephemeral(pool)) {
- page = zbud_free_and_delist((struct zbudref *)pampd,
+ if (!zero_filled)
+ page = zbud_free_and_delist((struct zbudref *)pampd,
true, &zsize, &zpages);
if (page)
dec_zcache_eph_pageframes();
@@ -659,7 +715,8 @@
dec_zcache_eph_zbytes(zsize);
/* FIXME CONFIG_RAMSTER... check acct parameter? */
} else {
- page = zbud_free_and_delist((struct zbudref *)pampd,
+ if (!zero_filled)
+ page = zbud_free_and_delist((struct zbudref *)pampd,
false, &zsize, &zpages);
if (page)
dec_zcache_pers_pageframes();
@@ -668,7 +725,7 @@
}
if (!is_local_client(pool->client))
ramster_count_foreign_pages(is_ephemeral(pool), -1);
- if (page)
+ if (page && !zero_filled)
zcache_free_page(page);
}