linux/drivers/block/zram
Taejoon Song 90f82cbfe5 zram: try to avoid worst-case scenario on same element pages
The worst-case scenario on finding same element pages is that almost all
elements are same at the first glance but only last few elements are
different.

Since the same element tends to be grouped from the beginning of the
pages, if we check the first element with the last element before
looping through all elements, we might have some chances to quickly
detect non-same element pages.

 1. Test is done under LG webOS TV (64-bit arch)
 2. Dump the swap-out pages (~819200 pages)
 3. Analyze the pages with simple test script which counts the iteration
    number and measures the speed at off-line

Under 64-bit arch, the worst iteration count is PAGE_SIZE / 8 bytes =
512.  The speed is based on the time to consume page_same_filled()
function only.  The result, on average, is listed as below:

                                     Num of Iter    Speed(MB/s)
  Looping-Forward (Orig)                 38            99265
  Looping-Backward                       36           102725
  Last-element-check (This Patch)        33           125072

The result shows that the average iteration count decreases by 13% and
the speed increases by 25% with this patch.  This patch does not
increase the overall time complexity, though.

I also ran simpler version which uses backward loop.  Just looping
backward also makes some improvement, but less than this patch.

[taejoon.song@lge.com: fix off-by-one]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1578642001-11765-1-git-send-email-taejoon.song@lge.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1575424418-16119-1-git-send-email-taejoon.song@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Taejoon Song <taejoon.song@lge.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-01-31 10:30:39 -08:00
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Kconfig docs: blockdev: add it to the admin-guide 2019-07-15 11:03:01 -03:00
Makefile treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
zcomp.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
zcomp.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
zram_drv.c zram: try to avoid worst-case scenario on same element pages 2020-01-31 10:30:39 -08:00
zram_drv.h zram: idle writeback fixes and cleanup 2019-01-08 17:15:10 -08:00