Re: [PATCH 7/7] zram: remove unnecessary lock

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Tue Jan 14 2014 - 20:33:22 EST


Hello Jerome,

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:29:40AM +0100, Jerome Marchand wrote:
> On 01/13/2014 12:19 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > read/write lock's performance is really bad compared to
> > mutex_lock in write most workload.(AFAIR, recenlty there
> > were some effort to enhance it but not sure it got merged).
> >
> > Anyway, we don't need such big granuarity read-write lock
> > any more so this patch replaces read/write lock with mutex.
>
> I find your description misleading. You seem to imply that
> the r/w semaphore is inappropriate here and that replacing
> it by a mutex increased performance while in fact (correct
> me if I'm wrong) you replaced the rw semaphore by another
> rw semaphore, a mutex and atomic operations. It seems to me
> that the perf enhancement come from the smaller grain, not
> an rw lock perf issue.
> Also, please add a general description of the locking
> changes you did. As Andrew, I was also confused at first by
> your fourth patch.

Thanks for the review.
I just sent v2 with updated description.
Please review it.

In summary,
I removed read-write critical section by rw-semaphore so IOzone's
mixed workload perform well than old and as a bonus point, I
changed rw-semaphore with mutex so that we get a bonus point
on write-write concurrency since mutex supports SPIN_ON_OWNER
while rw-semaphore doesn't yet.

Thanks.

>
> Jerome
>
> >
> > CPU 12
> > iozone -t -T -l 12 -u 12 -r 16K -s 60M -I +Z -V 0
> >
> > ==Initial write ==Initial write
> > records: 10 records: 10
> > avg: 516189.16 avg: 839907.96
> > std: 22486.53 std: 47902.17
> > max: 546970.60 max: 909910.35
> > min: 481131.54 min: 751148.38
> > ==Rewrite ==Rewrite
> > records: 10 records: 10
> > avg: 509527.98 avg: 1050156.37
> > std: 45799.94 std: 40695.44
> > max: 611574.27 max: 1111929.26
> > min: 443679.95 min: 980409.62
> > ==Read ==Read
> > records: 10 records: 10
> > avg: 4408624.17 avg: 4472546.76
> > std: 281152.61 std: 163662.78
> > max: 4867888.66 max: 4727351.03
> > min: 4058347.69 min: 4126520.88
> > ==Re-read ==Re-read
> > records: 10 records: 10
> > avg: 4462147.53 avg: 4363257.75
> > std: 283546.11 std: 247292.63
> > max: 4912894.44 max: 4677241.75
> > min: 4131386.50 min: 4035235.84
> > ==Reverse Read ==Reverse Read
> > records: 10 records: 10
> > avg: 4565865.97 avg: 4485818.08
> > std: 313395.63 std: 248470.10
> > max: 5232749.16 max: 4789749.94
> > min: 4185809.62 min: 3963081.34
> > ==Stride read ==Stride read
> > records: 10 records: 10
> > avg: 4515981.80 avg: 4418806.01
> > std: 211192.32 std: 212837.97
> > max: 4889287.28 max: 4686967.22
> > min: 4210362.00 min: 4083041.84
> > ==Random read ==Random read
> > records: 10 records: 10
> > avg: 4410525.23 avg: 4387093.18
> > std: 236693.22 std: 235285.23
> > max: 4713698.47 max: 4669760.62
> > min: 4057163.62 min: 3952002.16
> > ==Mixed workload ==Mixed workload
> > records: 10 records: 10
> > avg: 243234.25 avg: 2818677.27
> > std: 28505.07 std: 195569.70
> > max: 288905.23 max: 3126478.11
> > min: 212473.16 min: 2484150.69
> > ==Random write ==Random write
> > records: 10 records: 10
> > avg: 555887.07 avg: 1053057.79
> > std: 70841.98 std: 35195.36
> > max: 683188.28 max: 1096125.73
> > min: 437299.57 min: 992481.93
> > ==Pwrite ==Pwrite
> > records: 10 records: 10
> > avg: 501745.93 avg: 810363.09
> > std: 16373.54 std: 19245.01
> > max: 518724.52 max: 833359.70
> > min: 464208.73 min: 765501.87
> > ==Pread ==Pread
> > records: 10 records: 10
> > avg: 4539894.60 avg: 4457680.58
> > std: 197094.66 std: 188965.60
> > max: 4877170.38 max: 4689905.53
> > min: 4226326.03 min: 4095739.72
> >
> > Read side seem to be a bit slower than old but I believe it's not
> > bad deal if we consider increased performance of write side and
> > code readability.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 17 ++++++++---------
> > drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h | 4 +---
> > 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> > index f1a3c95..011e55d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> > +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> > @@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ static struct zram_meta *zram_meta_alloc(u64 disksize)
> > }
> >
> > rwlock_init(&meta->tb_lock);
> > + mutex_init(&meta->buffer_lock);
> > return meta;
> >
> > free_table:
> > @@ -412,6 +413,7 @@ static int zram_bvec_write(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec, u32 index,
> > struct page *page;
> > unsigned char *user_mem, *cmem, *src, *uncmem = NULL;
> > struct zram_meta *meta = zram->meta;
> > + bool locked = false;
> >
> > page = bvec->bv_page;
> > src = meta->compress_buffer;
> > @@ -431,6 +433,8 @@ static int zram_bvec_write(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec, u32 index,
> > goto out;
> > }
> >
> > + mutex_lock(&meta->buffer_lock);
> > + locked = true;
> > user_mem = kmap_atomic(page);
> >
> > if (is_partial_io(bvec)) {
> > @@ -457,7 +461,6 @@ static int zram_bvec_write(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec, u32 index,
> >
> > ret = lzo1x_1_compress(uncmem, PAGE_SIZE, src, &clen,
> > meta->compress_workmem);
> > -
> > if (!is_partial_io(bvec)) {
> > kunmap_atomic(user_mem);
> > user_mem = NULL;
> > @@ -514,6 +517,8 @@ static int zram_bvec_write(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec, u32 index,
> > atomic_inc(&zram->stats.good_compress);
> >
> > out:
> > + if (locked)
> > + mutex_unlock(&meta->buffer_lock);
> > if (is_partial_io(bvec))
> > kfree(uncmem);
> >
> > @@ -527,15 +532,10 @@ static int zram_bvec_rw(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec, u32 index,
> > {
> > int ret;
> >
> > - if (rw == READ) {
> > - down_read(&zram->lock);
> > + if (rw == READ)
> > ret = zram_bvec_read(zram, bvec, index, offset, bio);
> > - up_read(&zram->lock);
> > - } else {
> > - down_write(&zram->lock);
> > + else
> > ret = zram_bvec_write(zram, bvec, index, offset);
> > - up_write(&zram->lock);
> > - }
> >
> > return ret;
> > }
> > @@ -808,7 +808,6 @@ static int create_device(struct zram *zram, int device_id)
> > {
> > int ret = -ENOMEM;
> >
> > - init_rwsem(&zram->lock);
> > init_rwsem(&zram->init_lock);
> >
> > zram->queue = blk_alloc_queue(GFP_KERNEL);
> > diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
> > index d876300..ad8aa35 100644
> > --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
> > +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
> > @@ -88,13 +88,11 @@ struct zram_meta {
> > void *compress_buffer;
> > struct table *table;
> > struct zs_pool *mem_pool;
> > + struct mutex buffer_lock; /* protect compress buffers */
> > };
> >
> > struct zram {
> > struct zram_meta *meta;
> > - struct rw_semaphore lock; /* protect compression buffers,
> > - * reads and writes
> > - */
> > struct request_queue *queue;
> > struct gendisk *disk;
> > int init_done;
> >
>
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Minchan Kim
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