Re: [PATCHv4 14/17] zsmalloc: make zspage lock preemptible

[Yosry Ahmed]

February 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM, "Sergey Senozhatsky" <senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



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> On (25/02/12 15:35), Yosry Ahmed wrote:
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> > Difference at 95.0% confidence
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> >  -1.03219e+08 +/- 55308.7
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> >  -27.9705% +/- 0.0149878%
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> >  (Student's t, pooled s = 58864.4)
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> >  
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> >  Thanks for sharing these results, but I wonder if this will capture
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> >  regressions from locking changes (e.g. a lock being preemtible)? IIUC
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> >  this is counting the instructions executed in these paths, and that
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> >  won't change if the task gets preempted. Lock contention may be captured
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> >  as extra instructions, but I am not sure we'll directly see its effect
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> >  in terms of serialization and delays.
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> Yeah..
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> > I think we also need some high level testing (e.g. concurrent
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> >  swapins/swapouts) to find that out. I think that's what Kairui's testing
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> >  covers.
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> I do a fair amount of high-level testing: heavy parallel (make -j36 and
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> parallel dd) workloads (multiple zram devices configuration - zram0 ext4,
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> zram1 writeback device, zram2 swap) w/ and w/o lockdep. In addition I also
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> run these workloads under heavy memory pressure (a 4GB VM), when oom-killer
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> starts to run around with a pair of scissors. But it's mostly regression
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> testing.
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If we can get some numbers from these parallel workloads that would be better than the perf stats imo.