zsmalloc: merge size_class to reduce fragmentation
zsmalloc has many size_classes to reduce fragmentation and they are in 16
bytes unit, for example, 16, 32, 48, etc., if PAGE_SIZE is 4096. And,
zsmalloc has constraint that each zspage has 4 pages at maximum.
In this situation, we can see interesting aspect. Let's think about
size_class for 1488, 1472, ..., 1376. To prevent external fragmentation,
they uses 4 pages per zspage and so all they can contain 11 objects at
maximum.
16384 (4096 * 4) = 1488 * 11 + remains
16384 (4096 * 4) = 1472 * 11 + remains
16384 (4096 * 4) = ...
16384 (4096 * 4) = 1376 * 11 + remains
It means that they have same characteristics and classification between
them isn't needed. If we use one size_class for them, we can reduce
fragementation and save some memory since both the 1488 and 1472 sized
classes can only fit 11 objects into 4 pages, and an object that's 1472
bytes can fit into an object that's 1488 bytes, merging these classes to
always use objects that are 1488 bytes will reduce the total number of
size classes. And reducing the total number of size classes reduces
overall fragmentation, because a wider range of compressed pages can fit
into a single size class, leaving less unused objects in each size class.
For this purpose, this patch implement size_class merging. If there is
size_class that have same pages_per_zspage and same number of objects per
zspage with previous size_class, we don't create new size_class. Instead,
we use previous, same characteristic size_class. With this way, above
example sizes (1488, 1472, ..., 1376) use just one size_class so we can
get much more memory utilization.
Below is result of my simple test.
TEST ENV: EXT4 on zram, mount with discard option WORKLOAD: untar kernel
source code, remove directory in descending order in size. (drivers arch
fs sound include net Documentation firmware kernel tools)
Each line represents orig_data_size, compr_data_size, mem_used_total,
fragmentation overhead (mem_used - compr_data_size) and overhead ratio
(overhead to compr_data_size), respectively, after untar and remove
operation is executed.
* untar-nomerge.out
orig_size compr_size used_size overhead overhead_ratio
525.88MB 199.16MB 210.23MB 11.08MB 5.56%
288.32MB 97.43MB 105.63MB 8.20MB 8.41%
177.32MB 61.12MB 69.40MB 8.28MB 13.55%
146.47MB 47.32MB 56.10MB 8.78MB 18.55%
124.16MB 38.85MB 48.41MB 9.55MB 24.58%
103.93MB 31.68MB 40.93MB 9.25MB 29.21%
84.34MB 22.86MB 32.72MB 9.86MB 43.13%
66.87MB 14.83MB 23.83MB 9.00MB 60.70%
60.67MB 11.11MB 18.60MB 7.49MB 67.48%
55.86MB 8.83MB 16.61MB 7.77MB 88.03%
53.32MB 8.01MB 15.32MB 7.31MB 91.24%
* untar-merge.out
orig_size compr_size used_size overhead overhead_ratio
526.23MB 199.18MB 209.81MB 10.64MB 5.34%
288.68MB 97.45MB 104.08MB 6.63MB 6.80%
177.68MB 61.14MB 66.93MB 5.79MB 9.47%
146.83MB 47.34MB 52.79MB 5.45MB 11.51%
124.52MB 38.87MB 44.30MB 5.43MB 13.96%
104.29MB 31.70MB 36.83MB 5.13MB 16.19%
84.70MB 22.88MB 27.92MB 5.04MB 22.04%
67.11MB 14.83MB 19.26MB 4.43MB 29.86%
60.82MB 11.10MB 14.90MB 3.79MB 34.17%
55.90MB 8.82MB 12.61MB 3.79MB 42.97%
53.32MB 8.01MB 11.73MB 3.73MB 46.53%
As you can see above result, merged one has better utilization (overhead
ratio, 5th column) and uses less memory (mem_used_total, 3rd column).
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>
Cc: <juno.choi@lge.com>
Cc: "seungho1.park" <seungho1.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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