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authorzhouxianrong <zhouxianrong@huawei.com>2017-02-24 14:59:27 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-02-24 17:46:56 -0800
commit8e19d540d107ee897eb9a874844060c94e2376c0 (patch)
treea268e406f52137cf0f81150c8f27b0c9100c6bfb /Documentation/blockdev
parent517663edd6b5d2a822469885994f34e092e2cf9f (diff)
downloadlinux-8e19d540d107ee897eb9a874844060c94e2376c0.tar.gz
zram: extend zero pages to same element pages
The idea is that without doing more calculations we extend zero pages to same element pages for zram. zero page is special case of same element page with zero element. 1. the test is done under android 7.0 2. startup too many applications circularly 3. sample the zero pages, same pages (none-zero element) and total pages in function page_zero_filled the result is listed as below: ZERO SAME TOTAL 36214 17842 598196 ZERO/TOTAL SAME/TOTAL (ZERO+SAME)/TOTAL ZERO/SAME AVERAGE 0.060631909 0.024990816 0.085622726 2.663825038 STDEV 0.00674612 0.005887625 0.009707034 2.115881328 MAX 0.069698422 0.030046087 0.094975336 7.56043956 MIN 0.03959586 0.007332205 0.056055193 1.928985507 from the above data, the benefit is about 2.5% and up to 3% of total swapout pages. The defect of the patch is that when we recovery a page from non-zero element the operations are low efficient for partial read. This patch extends zero_page to same_page so if there is any user to have monitored zero_pages, he will be surprised if the number is increased but it's not harmful, I believe. [minchan@kernel.org: do not free same element pages in zram_meta_free] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170207065741.GA2567@bbox Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483692145-75357-1-git-send-email-zhouxianrong@huawei.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486307804-27903-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: zhouxianrong <zhouxianrong@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
index 1c0c08d9206b..4fced8a21307 100644
--- a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
+++ b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
@@ -201,8 +201,8 @@ File /sys/block/zram<id>/mm_stat
The stat file represents device's mm statistics. It consists of a single
line of text and contains the following stats separated by whitespace:
orig_data_size uncompressed size of data stored in this disk.
- This excludes zero-filled pages (zero_pages) since no
- memory is allocated for them.
+ This excludes same-element-filled pages (same_pages) since
+ no memory is allocated for them.
Unit: bytes
compr_data_size compressed size of data stored in this disk
mem_used_total the amount of memory allocated for this disk. This
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ line of text and contains the following stats separated by whitespace:
the compressed data
mem_used_max the maximum amount of memory zram have consumed to
store the data
- zero_pages the number of zero filled pages written to this disk.
+ same_pages the number of same element filled pages written to this disk.
No memory is allocated for such pages.
pages_compacted the number of pages freed during compaction