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H A Dpage_io.cdiff 4efaceb1c5f8136d5fec3f26549d294b8e898bd7 Thu Jul 11 22:55:41 CDT 2019 Aaron Lu <ziqian.lzq@antfin.com> mm, swap: use rbtree for swap_extent

swap_extent is used to map swap page offset to backing device's block
offset. For a continuous block range, one swap_extent is used and all
these swap_extents are managed in a linked list.

These swap_extents are used by map_swap_entry() during swap's read and
write path. To find out the backing device's block offset for a page
offset, the swap_extent list will be traversed linearly, with
curr_swap_extent being used as a cache to speed up the search.

This works well as long as swap_extents are not huge or when the number
of processes that access swap device are few, but when the swap device
has many extents and there are a number of processes accessing the swap
device concurrently, it can be a problem. On one of our servers, the
disk's remaining size is tight:

$df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
... ...
/dev/nvme0n1p1 1.8T 1.3T 504G 72% /home/t4

When creating a 80G swapfile there, there are as many as 84656 swap
extents. The end result is, kernel spends abou 30% time in
map_swap_entry() and swap throughput is only 70MB/s.

As a comparison, when I used smaller sized swapfile, like 4G whose
swap_extent dropped to 2000, swap throughput is back to 400-500MB/s and
map_swap_entry() is about 3%.

One downside of using rbtree for swap_extent is, 'struct rbtree' takes
24 bytes while 'struct list_head' takes 16 bytes, that's 8 bytes more
for each swap_extent. For a swapfile that has 80k swap_extents, that
means 625KiB more memory consumed.

Test:

Since it's not possible to reboot that server, I can not test this patch
diretly there. Instead, I tested it on another server with NVMe disk.

I created a 20G swapfile on an NVMe backed XFS fs. By default, the
filesystem is quite clean and the created swapfile has only 2 extents.
Testing vanilla and this patch shows no obvious performance difference
when swapfile is not fragmented.

To see the patch's effects, I used some tweaks to manually fragment the
swapfile by breaking the extent at 1M boundary. This made the swapfile
have 20K extents.

nr_task=4
kernel swapout(KB/s) map_swap_entry(perf) swapin(KB/s) map_swap_entry(perf)
vanilla 165191 90.77% 171798 90.21%
patched 858993 +420% 2.16% 715827 +317% 0.77%

nr_task=8
kernel swapout(KB/s) map_swap_entry(perf) swapin(KB/s) map_swap_entry(perf)
vanilla 306783 92.19% 318145 87.76%
patched 954437 +211% 2.35% 1073741 +237% 1.57%

swapout: the throughput of swap out, in KB/s, higher is better 1st
map_swap_entry: cpu cycles percent sampled by perf swapin: the
throughput of swap in, in KB/s, higher is better. 2nd map_swap_entry:
cpu cycles percent sampled by perf

nr_task=1 doesn't show any difference, this is due to the curr_swap_extent
can be effectively used to cache the correct swap extent for single task
workload.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/BUG_ON(1)/BUG()/]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190523142404.GA181@aaronlu
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <ziqian.lzq@antfin.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
H A Dswapfile.cdiff 4efaceb1c5f8136d5fec3f26549d294b8e898bd7 Thu Jul 11 22:55:41 CDT 2019 Aaron Lu <ziqian.lzq@antfin.com> mm, swap: use rbtree for swap_extent

swap_extent is used to map swap page offset to backing device's block
offset. For a continuous block range, one swap_extent is used and all
these swap_extents are managed in a linked list.

These swap_extents are used by map_swap_entry() during swap's read and
write path. To find out the backing device's block offset for a page
offset, the swap_extent list will be traversed linearly, with
curr_swap_extent being used as a cache to speed up the search.

This works well as long as swap_extents are not huge or when the number
of processes that access swap device are few, but when the swap device
has many extents and there are a number of processes accessing the swap
device concurrently, it can be a problem. On one of our servers, the
disk's remaining size is tight:

$df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
... ...
/dev/nvme0n1p1 1.8T 1.3T 504G 72% /home/t4

When creating a 80G swapfile there, there are as many as 84656 swap
extents. The end result is, kernel spends abou 30% time in
map_swap_entry() and swap throughput is only 70MB/s.

As a comparison, when I used smaller sized swapfile, like 4G whose
swap_extent dropped to 2000, swap throughput is back to 400-500MB/s and
map_swap_entry() is about 3%.

One downside of using rbtree for swap_extent is, 'struct rbtree' takes
24 bytes while 'struct list_head' takes 16 bytes, that's 8 bytes more
for each swap_extent. For a swapfile that has 80k swap_extents, that
means 625KiB more memory consumed.

Test:

Since it's not possible to reboot that server, I can not test this patch
diretly there. Instead, I tested it on another server with NVMe disk.

I created a 20G swapfile on an NVMe backed XFS fs. By default, the
filesystem is quite clean and the created swapfile has only 2 extents.
Testing vanilla and this patch shows no obvious performance difference
when swapfile is not fragmented.

To see the patch's effects, I used some tweaks to manually fragment the
swapfile by breaking the extent at 1M boundary. This made the swapfile
have 20K extents.

nr_task=4
kernel swapout(KB/s) map_swap_entry(perf) swapin(KB/s) map_swap_entry(perf)
vanilla 165191 90.77% 171798 90.21%
patched 858993 +420% 2.16% 715827 +317% 0.77%

nr_task=8
kernel swapout(KB/s) map_swap_entry(perf) swapin(KB/s) map_swap_entry(perf)
vanilla 306783 92.19% 318145 87.76%
patched 954437 +211% 2.35% 1073741 +237% 1.57%

swapout: the throughput of swap out, in KB/s, higher is better 1st
map_swap_entry: cpu cycles percent sampled by perf swapin: the
throughput of swap in, in KB/s, higher is better. 2nd map_swap_entry:
cpu cycles percent sampled by perf

nr_task=1 doesn't show any difference, this is due to the curr_swap_extent
can be effectively used to cache the correct swap extent for single task
workload.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/BUG_ON(1)/BUG()/]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190523142404.GA181@aaronlu
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <ziqian.lzq@antfin.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/openbmc/linux/include/linux/
H A Dswap.hdiff 4efaceb1c5f8136d5fec3f26549d294b8e898bd7 Thu Jul 11 22:55:41 CDT 2019 Aaron Lu <ziqian.lzq@antfin.com> mm, swap: use rbtree for swap_extent

swap_extent is used to map swap page offset to backing device's block
offset. For a continuous block range, one swap_extent is used and all
these swap_extents are managed in a linked list.

These swap_extents are used by map_swap_entry() during swap's read and
write path. To find out the backing device's block offset for a page
offset, the swap_extent list will be traversed linearly, with
curr_swap_extent being used as a cache to speed up the search.

This works well as long as swap_extents are not huge or when the number
of processes that access swap device are few, but when the swap device
has many extents and there are a number of processes accessing the swap
device concurrently, it can be a problem. On one of our servers, the
disk's remaining size is tight:

$df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
... ...
/dev/nvme0n1p1 1.8T 1.3T 504G 72% /home/t4

When creating a 80G swapfile there, there are as many as 84656 swap
extents. The end result is, kernel spends abou 30% time in
map_swap_entry() and swap throughput is only 70MB/s.

As a comparison, when I used smaller sized swapfile, like 4G whose
swap_extent dropped to 2000, swap throughput is back to 400-500MB/s and
map_swap_entry() is about 3%.

One downside of using rbtree for swap_extent is, 'struct rbtree' takes
24 bytes while 'struct list_head' takes 16 bytes, that's 8 bytes more
for each swap_extent. For a swapfile that has 80k swap_extents, that
means 625KiB more memory consumed.

Test:

Since it's not possible to reboot that server, I can not test this patch
diretly there. Instead, I tested it on another server with NVMe disk.

I created a 20G swapfile on an NVMe backed XFS fs. By default, the
filesystem is quite clean and the created swapfile has only 2 extents.
Testing vanilla and this patch shows no obvious performance difference
when swapfile is not fragmented.

To see the patch's effects, I used some tweaks to manually fragment the
swapfile by breaking the extent at 1M boundary. This made the swapfile
have 20K extents.

nr_task=4
kernel swapout(KB/s) map_swap_entry(perf) swapin(KB/s) map_swap_entry(perf)
vanilla 165191 90.77% 171798 90.21%
patched 858993 +420% 2.16% 715827 +317% 0.77%

nr_task=8
kernel swapout(KB/s) map_swap_entry(perf) swapin(KB/s) map_swap_entry(perf)
vanilla 306783 92.19% 318145 87.76%
patched 954437 +211% 2.35% 1073741 +237% 1.57%

swapout: the throughput of swap out, in KB/s, higher is better 1st
map_swap_entry: cpu cycles percent sampled by perf swapin: the
throughput of swap in, in KB/s, higher is better. 2nd map_swap_entry:
cpu cycles percent sampled by perf

nr_task=1 doesn't show any difference, this is due to the curr_swap_extent
can be effectively used to cache the correct swap extent for single task
workload.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/BUG_ON(1)/BUG()/]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190523142404.GA181@aaronlu
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <ziqian.lzq@antfin.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>