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Commit 71268035 authored by Sergey Senozhatsky's avatar Sergey Senozhatsky Committed by Andrew Morton
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zram: free slot memory early during write

Patch series "zram: split page type read/write handling", v2.

This is a subset of [1] series which contains only fixes and improvements
(no new features, as ZRAM_HUGE split is still under consideration).

The motivation for factoring out is that zram_write_page() gets more and
more complex all the time, because it tries to handle too many scenarios:
ZRAM_SAME store, ZRAM_HUGE store, compress page store with zs_malloc
allocation slowpath and conditional recompression, etc.  Factor those out
and make things easier to handle.

Addition of cond_resched() is simply a fix, I can trigger watchdog from
zram writeback().  And early slot free is just a reasonable thing to do.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/20241119072057.3440039-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org


This patch (of 7):

In the current implementation entry's previously allocated memory is
released in the very last moment, when we already have allocated a new
memory for new data.  This, basically, temporarily increases memory usage
for no good reason.  For example, consider the case when both old (stale)
and new entry data are incompressible so such entry will temporarily use
two physical pages - one for stale (old) data and one for new data.  We
can release old memory as soon as we get a write request for entry.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241218063513.297475-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241218063513.297475-2-senozhatsky@chromium.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarSergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 67691831
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