History log of /linux-master/fs/erofs/zutil.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 0f6273ab 02-Apr-2024 Chunhai Guo <guochunhai@vivo.com>

erofs: add a reserved buffer pool for lz4 decompression

This adds a special global buffer pool (in the end) for reserved pages.

Using a reserved pool for LZ4 decompression significantly reduces the
time spent on extra temporary page allocation for the extreme cases in
low memory scenarios.

The table below shows the reduction in time spent on page allocation for
LZ4 decompression when using a reserved pool. The results were obtained
from multi-app launch benchmarks on ARM64 Android devices running the
5.15 kernel with an 8-core CPU and 8GB of memory. In the benchmark, we
launched 16 frequently-used apps, and the camera app was the last one in
each round. The data in the table is the average time of camera app for
each round.

After using the reserved pool, there was an average improvement of 150ms
in the overall launch time of our camera app, which was obtained from
the systrace log.

+--------------+---------------+--------------+---------+
| | w/o page pool | w/ page pool | diff |
+--------------+---------------+--------------+---------+
| Average (ms) | 3434 | 21 | -99.38% |
+--------------+---------------+--------------+---------+

Based on the benchmark logs, 64 pages are sufficient for 95% of
scenarios. This value can be adjusted with a module parameter
`reserved_pages`. The default value is 0.

This pool is currently only used for the LZ4 decompressor, but it can be
applied to more decompressors if needed.

Signed-off-by: Chunhai Guo <guochunhai@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240402131523.2703948-1-guochunhai@vivo.com
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>


# d6db47e5 02-Apr-2024 Chunhai Guo <guochunhai@vivo.com>

erofs: do not use pagepool in z_erofs_gbuf_growsize()

Let's use alloc_pages_bulk_array() for simplicity and get rid of
unnecessary pagepool.

Signed-off-by: Chunhai Guo <guochunhai@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240402092757.2635257-1-guochunhai@vivo.com
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>


# f36f3010 02-Apr-2024 Chunhai Guo <guochunhai@vivo.com>

erofs: rename per-CPU buffers to global buffer pool and make it configurable

It will cost more time if compressed buffers are allocated on demand for
low-latency algorithms (like lz4) so EROFS uses per-CPU buffers to keep
compressed data if in-place decompression is unfulfilled. While it is kind
of wasteful of memory for a device with hundreds of CPUs, and only a small
number of CPUs concurrently decompress most of the time.

This patch renames it as 'global buffer pool' and makes it configurable.
This allows two or more CPUs to share a common buffer to reduce memory
occupation.

Suggested-by: Gao Xiang <xiang@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Chunhai Guo <guochunhai@vivo.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240402100036.2673604-1-guochunhai@vivo.com
Signed-off-by: Sandeep Dhavale <dhavale@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408215231.3376659-1-dhavale@google.com
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>


# cacd5b04 01-Apr-2024 Chunhai Guo <guochunhai@vivo.com>

erofs: rename utils.c to zutil.c

Currently, utils.c is only useful if CONFIG_EROFS_FS_ZIP is on.
So let's rename it to zutil.c as well as avoid its inclusion if
CONFIG_EROFS_FS_ZIP is explicitly disabled.

Signed-off-by: Chunhai Guo <guochunhai@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240401135550.2550043-1-guochunhai@vivo.com
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>