[PATCH v4] erofs: free pclusters if no cached folio attached
Gao Xiang
hsiangkao at linux.alibaba.com
Tue Nov 12 13:32:38 AEDT 2024
Just two extra minor nits...
First, the subject line would be
"erofs: free pclusters if no cached folio is attached"
On 2024/11/11 19:38, 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 at vivo.com>
...
> -static void z_erofs_put_pcluster(struct z_erofs_pcluster *pcl)
> +static void z_erofs_put_pcluster(struct erofs_sb_info *sbi,
> + struct z_erofs_pcluster *pcl, bool try_free)
> {
> + bool free = false;
> +
> if (lockref_put_or_lock(&pcl->lockref))
> return;
>
> DBG_BUGON(__lockref_is_dead(&pcl->lockref));
> - if (pcl->lockref.count == 1)
> - atomic_long_inc(&erofs_global_shrink_cnt);
> - --pcl->lockref.count;
> + if (--pcl->lockref.count == 0) {
Second, EROFS codebase uses `!--pcl->lockref.count`
coding style instead of `== 0` since the old checkpatch.pl
will complain this and I'd like to keep consistentency..
Otherwise it looks good to me, if you send out a
new version, I will apply directly.
Thanks,
Gao Xiang
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