[PATCH v2] erofs: relaxed temporary buffers allocation on readahead

Chunhai Guo guochunhai at vivo.com
Mon Jan 22 18:42:01 AEDT 2024


On 2024/1/22 12:37, Gao Xiang wrote:
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>
> On 2024/1/22 11:49, Chunhai Guo wrote:
>> On 2024/1/22 10:07, Gao Xiang wrote:
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>>>
>>> On 2024/1/20 22:55, Chunhai Guo wrote:
>>>> Even with inplace decompression, sometimes extra temporary buffers are
>>>> still needed for decompression.  In low-memory scenarios, it would be
>>>> better to try to allocate with GFP_NOWAIT on readahead first. That can
>>>> help reduce the time spent on page allocation under memory pressure.
>>>>
>>>> There is an average reduction of 21% in page allocation time under
>>> It would be better to add a table to show the absolute numbers too
>>> (like what you did in the global pool commit.)  If it's possible, there
>>> is no need to send a update version for this, just reply the updated
>>> commit message and I will update the commit manually.
>>
>> The table below shows detailed numbers. The reduction I mentioned before
>> was not accurate enough. Please help correct the improvement from 21% to
>> 20.21%.
>>
>>
>> +--------------+----------------+---------------+---------+
>> |              | w/o GFP_NOWAIT | w/ GFP_NOWAIT |  diff   |
>> +--------------+----------------+---------------+---------+
>> | Average (ms) |     3364       |      2684     | -20.21% |
>> +--------------+----------------+---------------+---------+
> Did it test without the 16k sliding window change?
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-erofs/69711d55-f7a2-420b-9ba8-fa2921f66a4c@vivo.com

The result is tested with 64k sliding window change.

> Could you benchmark these two optimizations together to
> show the extreme optimized case without a global pool?
> With a new table if possible? I will add this to
> the commit message too.


OK. I will reply to this email when the benchmark is finished.


> Thanks,
> Gao Xiang
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>> Otherwise it looks good to me,
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Gao Xiang
>>>
>>>> multi-app launch benchmark workload [1] on ARM64 Android devices running
>>>> the 5.15 kernel with an 8-core CPU and 8GB of memory.
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240109074143.4138783-1-guochunhai@vivo.com
>>>>
>>>> Suggested-by: Gao Xiang <xiang at kernel.org>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Chunhai Guo <guochunhai at vivo.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>      fs/erofs/compress.h             |  5 ++---
>>>>      fs/erofs/decompressor.c         |  5 +++--
>>>>      fs/erofs/decompressor_deflate.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
>>>>      fs/erofs/decompressor_lzma.c    | 17 ++++++++++++-----
>>>>      fs/erofs/zdata.c                | 16 ++++++++++++----
>>>>      5 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/fs/erofs/compress.h b/fs/erofs/compress.h
>>>> index 279933e007d2..7cc5841577b2 100644
>>>> --- a/fs/erofs/compress.h
>>>> +++ b/fs/erofs/compress.h
>>>> @@ -11,13 +11,12 @@
>>>>      struct z_erofs_decompress_req {
>>>>          struct super_block *sb;
>>>>          struct page **in, **out;
>>>> -
>>>>          unsigned short pageofs_in, pageofs_out;
>>>>          unsigned int inputsize, outputsize;
>>>>
>>>> -     /* indicate the algorithm will be used for decompression */
>>>> -     unsigned int alg;
>>>> +     unsigned int alg;       /* the algorithm for decompression */
>>>>          bool inplace_io, partial_decoding, fillgaps;
>>>> +     gfp_t gfp;      /* allocation flags for extra temporary buffers */
>>>>      };
>>>>
>>>>      struct z_erofs_decompressor {
>>>> diff --git a/fs/erofs/decompressor.c b/fs/erofs/decompressor.c
>>>> index 1d65b9f60a39..ef2b08ec9830 100644
>>>> --- a/fs/erofs/decompressor.c
>>>> +++ b/fs/erofs/decompressor.c
>>>> @@ -111,8 +111,9 @@ static int z_erofs_lz4_prepare_dstpages(struct z_erofs_lz4_decompress_ctx *ctx,
>>>>                          victim = availables[--top];
>>>>                          get_page(victim);
>>>>                  } else {
>>>> -                     victim = erofs_allocpage(pagepool,
>>>> -                                              GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
>>>> +                     victim = erofs_allocpage(pagepool, rq->gfp);
>>>> +                     if (!victim)
>>>> +                             return -ENOMEM;
>>>>                          set_page_private(victim, Z_EROFS_SHORTLIVED_PAGE);
>>>>                  }
>>>>                  rq->out[i] = victim;
>>>> diff --git a/fs/erofs/decompressor_deflate.c b/fs/erofs/decompressor_deflate.c
>>>> index 4a64a9c91dd3..b98872058abe 100644
>>>> --- a/fs/erofs/decompressor_deflate.c
>>>> +++ b/fs/erofs/decompressor_deflate.c
>>>> @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ int z_erofs_load_deflate_config(struct super_block *sb,
>>>>      }
>>>>
>>>>      int z_erofs_deflate_decompress(struct z_erofs_decompress_req *rq,
>>>> -                            struct page **pagepool)
>>>> +                            struct page **pgpl)
>>>>      {
>>>>          const unsigned int nrpages_out =
>>>>                  PAGE_ALIGN(rq->pageofs_out + rq->outputsize) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>>>> @@ -158,8 +158,12 @@ int z_erofs_deflate_decompress(struct z_erofs_decompress_req *rq,
>>>>                          strm->z.avail_out = min_t(u32, outsz, PAGE_SIZE - pofs);
>>>>                          outsz -= strm->z.avail_out;
>>>>                          if (!rq->out[no]) {
>>>> -                             rq->out[no] = erofs_allocpage(pagepool,
>>>> -                                             GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
>>>> +                             rq->out[no] = erofs_allocpage(pgpl, rq->gfp);
>>>> +                             if (!rq->out[no]) {
>>>> +                                     kout = NULL;
>>>> +                                     err = -ENOMEM;
>>>> +                                     break;
>>>> +                             }
>>>>                                  set_page_private(rq->out[no],
>>>>                                                   Z_EROFS_SHORTLIVED_PAGE);
>>>>                          }
>>>> @@ -211,8 +215,11 @@ int z_erofs_deflate_decompress(struct z_erofs_decompress_req *rq,
>>>>
>>>>                          DBG_BUGON(erofs_page_is_managed(EROFS_SB(sb),
>>>>                                                          rq->in[j]));
>>>> -                     tmppage = erofs_allocpage(pagepool,
>>>> -                                               GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
>>>> +                     tmppage = erofs_allocpage(pgpl, rq->gfp);
>>>> +                     if (!tmppage) {
>>>> +                             err = -ENOMEM;
>>>> +                             goto failed;
>>>> +                     }
>>>>                          set_page_private(tmppage, Z_EROFS_SHORTLIVED_PAGE);
>>>>                          copy_highpage(tmppage, rq->in[j]);
>>>>                          rq->in[j] = tmppage;
>>>> @@ -230,7 +237,7 @@ int z_erofs_deflate_decompress(struct z_erofs_decompress_req *rq,
>>>>                          break;
>>>>                  }
>>>>          }
>>>> -
>>>> +failed:
>>>>          if (zlib_inflateEnd(&strm->z) != Z_OK && !err)
>>>>                  err = -EIO;
>>>>          if (kout)
>>>> diff --git a/fs/erofs/decompressor_lzma.c b/fs/erofs/decompressor_lzma.c
>>>> index 2dd14f99c1dc..6ca357d83cfa 100644
>>>> --- a/fs/erofs/decompressor_lzma.c
>>>> +++ b/fs/erofs/decompressor_lzma.c
>>>> @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ int z_erofs_load_lzma_config(struct super_block *sb,
>>>>      }
>>>>
>>>>      int z_erofs_lzma_decompress(struct z_erofs_decompress_req *rq,
>>>> -                         struct page **pagepool)
>>>> +                         struct page **pgpl)
>>>>      {
>>>>          const unsigned int nrpages_out =
>>>>                  PAGE_ALIGN(rq->pageofs_out + rq->outputsize) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>>>> @@ -215,8 +215,11 @@ int z_erofs_lzma_decompress(struct z_erofs_decompress_req *rq,
>>>>                                                     PAGE_SIZE - pageofs);
>>>>                          outlen -= strm->buf.out_size;
>>>>                          if (!rq->out[no] && rq->fillgaps) {     /* deduped */
>>>> -                             rq->out[no] = erofs_allocpage(pagepool,
>>>> -                                             GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
>>>> +                             rq->out[no] = erofs_allocpage(pgpl, rq->gfp);
>>>> +                             if (!rq->out[no]) {
>>>> +                                     err = -ENOMEM;
>>>> +                                     break;
>>>> +                             }
>>>>                                  set_page_private(rq->out[no],
>>>>                                                   Z_EROFS_SHORTLIVED_PAGE);
>>>>                          }
>>>> @@ -258,8 +261,11 @@ int z_erofs_lzma_decompress(struct z_erofs_decompress_req *rq,
>>>>
>>>>                          DBG_BUGON(erofs_page_is_managed(EROFS_SB(rq->sb),
>>>>                                                          rq->in[j]));
>>>> -                     tmppage = erofs_allocpage(pagepool,
>>>> -                                               GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
>>>> +                     tmppage = erofs_allocpage(pgpl, rq->gfp);
>>>> +                     if (!tmppage) {
>>>> +                             err = -ENOMEM;
>>>> +                             goto failed;
>>>> +                     }
>>>>                          set_page_private(tmppage, Z_EROFS_SHORTLIVED_PAGE);
>>>>                          copy_highpage(tmppage, rq->in[j]);
>>>>                          rq->in[j] = tmppage;
>>>> @@ -277,6 +283,7 @@ int z_erofs_lzma_decompress(struct z_erofs_decompress_req *rq,
>>>>                          break;
>>>>                  }
>>>>          }
>>>> +failed:
>>>>          if (no < nrpages_out && strm->buf.out)
>>>>                  kunmap(rq->out[no]);
>>>>          if (ni < nrpages_in)
>>>> diff --git a/fs/erofs/zdata.c b/fs/erofs/zdata.c
>>>> index 692c0c39be63..a293de2a60ed 100644
>>>> --- a/fs/erofs/zdata.c
>>>> +++ b/fs/erofs/zdata.c
>>>> @@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ struct z_erofs_pcluster {
>>>>          /* L: indicate several pageofs_outs or not */
>>>>          bool multibases;
>>>>
>>>> +     /* L: whether extra buffer allocations are best-effort */
>>>> +     bool besteffort;
>>>> +
>>>>          /* A: compressed bvecs (can be cached or inplaced pages) */
>>>>          struct z_erofs_bvec compressed_bvecs[];
>>>>      };
>>>> @@ -964,7 +967,7 @@ static int z_erofs_read_fragment(struct super_block *sb, struct page *page,
>>>>      }
>>>>
>>>>      static int z_erofs_do_read_page(struct z_erofs_decompress_frontend *fe,
>>>> -                             struct page *page)
>>>> +                             struct page *page, bool ra)
>>>>      {
>>>>          struct inode *const inode = fe->inode;
>>>>          struct erofs_map_blocks *const map = &fe->map;
>>>> @@ -1014,6 +1017,7 @@ static int z_erofs_do_read_page(struct z_erofs_decompress_frontend *fe,
>>>>                  err = z_erofs_pcluster_begin(fe);
>>>>                  if (err)
>>>>                          goto out;
>>>> +             fe->pcl->besteffort |= !ra;
>>>>          }
>>>>
>>>>          /*
>>>> @@ -1280,7 +1284,11 @@ static int z_erofs_decompress_pcluster(struct z_erofs_decompress_backend *be,
>>>>                                          .inplace_io = overlapped,
>>>>                                          .partial_decoding = pcl->partial,
>>>>                                          .fillgaps = pcl->multibases,
>>>> +                                     .gfp = pcl->besteffort ?
>>>> +                                             GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL :
>>>> +                                             GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NORETRY
>>>>                                   }, be->pagepool);
>>>> +     pcl->besteffort = false;
>>>>
>>>>          /* must handle all compressed pages before actual file pages */
>>>>          if (z_erofs_is_inline_pcluster(pcl)) {
>>>> @@ -1785,7 +1793,7 @@ static void z_erofs_pcluster_readmore(struct z_erofs_decompress_frontend *f,
>>>>                          if (PageUptodate(page))
>>>>                                  unlock_page(page);
>>>>                          else
>>>> -                             (void)z_erofs_do_read_page(f, page);
>>>> +                             (void)z_erofs_do_read_page(f, page, !!rac);
>>>>                          put_page(page);
>>>>                  }
>>>>
>>>> @@ -1806,7 +1814,7 @@ static int z_erofs_read_folio(struct file *file, struct folio *folio)
>>>>          f.headoffset = (erofs_off_t)folio->index << PAGE_SHIFT;
>>>>
>>>>          z_erofs_pcluster_readmore(&f, NULL, true);
>>>> -     err = z_erofs_do_read_page(&f, &folio->page);
>>>> +     err = z_erofs_do_read_page(&f, &folio->page, false);
>>>>          z_erofs_pcluster_readmore(&f, NULL, false);
>>>>          z_erofs_pcluster_end(&f);
>>>>
>>>> @@ -1847,7 +1855,7 @@ static void z_erofs_readahead(struct readahead_control *rac)
>>>>                  folio = head;
>>>>                  head = folio_get_private(folio);
>>>>
>>>> -             err = z_erofs_do_read_page(&f, &folio->page);
>>>> +             err = z_erofs_do_read_page(&f, &folio->page, true);
>>>>                  if (err && err != -EINTR)
>>>>                          erofs_err(inode->i_sb, "readahead error at folio %lu @ nid %llu",
>>>>                                    folio->index, EROFS_I(inode)->nid);
>>



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