Re: [Patch 3.11.7 1/1]mm: remove and free expired data in time in zswap

[Weijie Yang]

add cc Seth 's new email address.

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Bob Liu <bob.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/08/2013 05:50 PM, changkun.li wrote:
>> In zswap, store page A to zbud if the compression ratio is high, insert
>> its entry into rbtree. if there is a entry B which has the same offset
>> in the rbtree.Remove and free B before insert the entry of A.
>>
>> case:
>> if the compression ratio of page A is not high, return without checking
>> the same offset one in rbtree.
>>
>> if there is a entry B which has the same offset in the rbtree. Now, we
>> make sure B is invalid or expired. But the entry and compressed memory
>> of B are not freed in time.
>>
>> Because zswap spaces data in memory, it makes the utilization of memory
>> lower. the other valid data in zbud is writeback to swap device more
>> possibility, when zswap is full.
>>
>> So if we make sure a entry is expired, free it in time.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: changkun.li<xfishcoder@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  mm/zswap.c |    5 ++++-
>>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
>> index cbd9578..90a2813 100644
>> --- a/mm/zswap.c
>> +++ b/mm/zswap.c
>> @@ -596,6 +596,7 @@ fail:
>>       return ret;
>>  }
>>
>> +static void zswap_frontswap_invalidate_page(unsigned type, pgoff_t
>> offset);
>>  /*********************************
>>  * frontswap hooks
>>  **********************************/
>> @@ -614,7 +615,7 @@ static int zswap_frontswap_store(unsigned type,
>> pgoff_t offset,
>>
>>       if (!tree) {
>>               ret = -ENODEV;
>> -             goto reject;
>> +             goto nodev;
>>       }
>>
>>       /* reclaim space if needed */
>> @@ -695,6 +696,8 @@ freepage:
>>       put_cpu_var(zswap_dstmem);
>>       zswap_entry_cache_free(entry);
>>  reject:
>> +     zswap_frontswap_invalidate_page(type, offset);
>
> I'm afraid when arrives here zswap_rb_search(offset) will always return
> NULL entry. So most of the time, it's just waste time to call
> zswap_frontswap_invalidate_page() to search rbtree.

Yes, it is a bug.

But I agree with Bob, this patch is not efficient.

How about like this?

diff --git a/mm/frontswap.c b/mm/frontswap.c
index 1b24bdc..1227896
--- a/mm/frontswap.c
+++ b/mm/frontswap.c
@@ -244,8 +244,10 @@ int __frontswap_store(struct page *page)
                  the (older) page from frontswap
                 */
                inc_frontswap_failed_stores();
-               if (dup)
+               if (dup) {
+                       frontswap_ops->invalidate_page(type, offset);
                        __frontswap_clear(sis, offset);
+               }
        }
        if (frontswap_writethrough_enabled)
                /* report failure so swap also writes to swap device */


> --
> Regards,
> -Bob
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