mm: remove compressed copy from zram in-memory

Swap subsystem does lazy swap slot free with expecting the page would be
swapped out again so we can avoid unnecessary write.

But the problem in in-memory swap(ex, zram) is that it consumes memory
space until vm_swap_full(ie, used half of all of swap device) condition
meet.  It could be bad if we use multiple swap device, small in-memory
swap and big storage swap or in-memory swap alone.

This patch makes swap subsystem free swap slot as soon as swap-read is
completed and make the swapcache page dirty so the page should be written
out the swap device to reclaim it.  It means we never lose it.

I tested this patch with kernel compile workload.

1. before

compile time : 9882.42
zram max wasted space by fragmentation: 13471881 byte
memory space consumed by zram: 174227456 byte
the number of slot free notify: 206684

2. after

compile time : 9653.90
zram max wasted space by fragmentation: 11805932 byte
memory space consumed by zram: 154001408 byte
the number of slot free notify: 426972

* changelog from v3
  * Rebased on next-20130508

* changelog from v1
  * Add more comment

Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@darnok.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/page_io.c b/mm/page_io.c
index a8a3ef45fed753b68ac1cc4a94c9260979a37879..736ffac48030540f4f52efa3fe0062885f330962 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/page_io.c
+++ b/mm/page_io.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include <linux/writeback.h>
 #include <linux/frontswap.h>
 #include <linux/aio.h>
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
 
 static struct bio *get_swap_bio(gfp_t gfp_flags,
@@ -81,8 +82,42 @@ void end_swap_bio_read(struct bio *bio, int err)
                                iminor(bio->bi_bdev->bd_inode),
                                (unsigned long long)bio->bi_sector);
        } else {
+               struct swap_info_struct *sis;
+
                SetPageUptodate(page);
+               sis = page_swap_info(page);
+               if (sis->flags & SWP_BLKDEV) {
+                       /*
+                        * Swap subsystem does lazy swap slot free with
+                        * expecting the page would be swapped out again
+                        * so we can avoid unnecessary write if the page
+                        * isn't redirty.
+                        * It's good for real swap storage  because we can
+                        * reduce unnecessary I/O and enhance wear-leveling
+                        * if you use SSD as swap device.
+                        * But if you use in-memory swap device(ex, zram),
+                        * it causes duplicated copy between uncompressed
+                        * data in VM-owned memory and compressed data in
+                        * zram-owned memory. So let's free zram-owned memory
+                        * and make the VM-owned decompressed page *dirty*
+                        * so the page should be swap out somewhere again if
+                        * we want to reclaim it, again.
+                        */
+                       struct gendisk *disk = sis->bdev->bd_disk;
+                       if (disk->fops->swap_slot_free_notify) {
+                               swp_entry_t entry;
+                               unsigned long offset;
+
+                               entry.val = page_private(page);
+                               offset = swp_offset(entry);
+
+                               SetPageDirty(page);
+                               disk->fops->swap_slot_free_notify(sis->bdev,
+                                               offset);
+                       }
+               }
        }
+
        unlock_page(page);
        bio_put(bio);
 }