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| author | Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> | 2024-08-23 20:04:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-09-03 21:15:47 -0700 |
| commit | 0ca0c24e3211586d44a31b3c4767fe3f43a008a7 (patch) | |
| tree | b22ff1d9bca4c0b57976416e608bd6a469f1fd62 /include/linux/swap.h | |
| parent | 435b3894e74256cc93772b7e586d848a5c3433ee (diff) | |
mm: store zero pages to be swapped out in a bitmap
Patch series "mm: store zero pages to be swapped out in a bitmap", v8.
As shown in the patch series that introduced the zswap same-filled
optimization [1], 10-20% of the pages stored in zswap are same-filled.
This is also observed across Meta's server fleet. By using VM counters in
swap_writepage (not included in this patchseries) it was found that less
than 1% of the same-filled pages to be swapped out are non-zero pages.
For conventional swap setup (without zswap), rather than reading/writing
these pages to flash resulting in increased I/O and flash wear, a bitmap
can be used to mark these pages as zero at write time, and the pages can
be filled at read time if the bit corresponding to the page is set.
When using zswap with swap, this also means that a zswap_entry does not
need to be allocated for zero filled pages resulting in memory savings
which would offset the memory used for the bitmap.
A similar attempt was made earlier in [2] where zswap would only track
zero-filled pages instead of same-filled. This patchseries adds
zero-filled pages optimization to swap (hence it can be used even if zswap
is disabled) and removes the same-filled code from zswap (as only 1% of
the same-filled pages are non-zero), simplifying code.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20171018104832epcms5p1b2232e2236258de3d03d1344dde9fce0@epcms5p1/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240325235018.2028408-1-yosryahmed@google.com/
This patch (of 2):
Approximately 10-20% of pages to be swapped out are zero pages [1].
Rather than reading/writing these pages to flash resulting
in increased I/O and flash wear, a bitmap can be used to mark these
pages as zero at write time, and the pages can be filled at
read time if the bit corresponding to the page is set.
With this patch, NVMe writes in Meta server fleet decreased
by almost 10% with conventional swap setup (zswap disabled).
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20171018104832epcms5p1b2232e2236258de3d03d1344dde9fce0@epcms5p1/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240823190545.979059-1-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240823190545.979059-2-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/swap.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/swap.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h index 248db1dd7812..ca533b478c21 100644 --- a/include/linux/swap.h +++ b/include/linux/swap.h @@ -296,6 +296,7 @@ struct swap_info_struct { signed char type; /* strange name for an index */ unsigned int max; /* extent of the swap_map */ unsigned char *swap_map; /* vmalloc'ed array of usage counts */ + unsigned long *zeromap; /* kvmalloc'ed bitmap to track zero pages */ struct swap_cluster_info *cluster_info; /* cluster info. Only for SSD */ struct list_head free_clusters; /* free clusters list */ struct list_head full_clusters; /* full clusters list */ |