Re: [PATCH v6] erofs: free pclusters if no cached folio is attached

From: Gao Xiang
Date: Mon Nov 11 2024 - 23:19:42 EST




On 2024/11/12 12:32, Chunhai Guo wrote:
Once a pcluster is fully decompressed and there are no attached cached
folios, its corresponding `struct z_erofs_pcluster` will be freed. This
will significantly reduce the frequency of calls to erofs_shrink_scan()
and the memory allocated for `struct z_erofs_pcluster`.

The tables below show approximately a 96% reduction in the calls to
erofs_shrink_scan() and in the memory allocated for `struct
z_erofs_pcluster` after applying this patch. The results were obtained
by performing a test to copy a 4.1GB partition on ARM64 Android devices
running the 6.6 kernel with an 8-core CPU and 12GB of memory.

1. The reduction in calls to erofs_shrink_scan():
+-----------------+-----------+----------+---------+
| | w/o patch | w/ patch | diff |
+-----------------+-----------+----------+---------+
| Average (times) | 11390 | 390 | -96.57% |
+-----------------+-----------+----------+---------+

2. The reduction in memory released by erofs_shrink_scan():
+-----------------+-----------+----------+---------+
| | w/o patch | w/ patch | diff |
+-----------------+-----------+----------+---------+
| Average (Byte) | 133612656 | 4434552 | -96.68% |
+-----------------+-----------+----------+---------+

Signed-off-by: Chunhai Guo <guochunhai@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Gao Xiang