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<title>kernel/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c, branch linux-6.5.y</title>
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<title>zram: preparation for multi-zcomp support</title>
<updated>2022-11-30T23:58:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>senozhatsky@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-09T11:50:35Z</published>
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Patch series "zram: Support multiple compression streams", v5.

This series adds support for multiple compression streams.  The main idea
is that different compression algorithms have different characteristics
and zram may benefit when it uses a combination of algorithms: a default
algorithm that is faster but have lower compression rate and a secondary
algorithm that can use higher compression rate at a price of slower
compression/decompression.

There are several use-case for this functionality:

- huge pages re-compression: zstd or deflate can successfully compress
  huge pages (~50% of huge pages on my synthetic ChromeOS tests), IOW
  pages that lzo was not able to compress.

- idle pages re-compression: idle/cold pages sit in the memory and we
  may reduce zsmalloc memory usage if we recompress those idle pages.

Userspace has a number of ways to control the behavior and impact of zram
recompression: what type of pages should be recompressed, size watermarks,
etc.  Please refer to documentation patch.


This patch (of 13):
			
The patch turns compression streams and compressor algorithm name struct
zram members into arrays, so that we can have multiple compression streams
support (in the next patches).

The patch uses a rather explicit API for compressor selection:

- Get primary (default) compression stream
	zcomp_stream_get(zram-&gt;comps[ZRAM_PRIMARY_COMP])
- Get secondary compression stream
	zcomp_stream_get(zram-&gt;comps[ZRAM_SECONDARY_COMP])

We use similar API for compression streams put().

At this point we always have just one compression stream,
since CONFIG_ZRAM_MULTI_COMP is not yet defined.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221109115047.2921851-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221109115047.2921851-2-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;senozhatsky@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nitin Gupta &lt;ngupta@vflare.org&gt;
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal &lt;suleiman@google.com&gt;
Cc: Nhat Pham &lt;nphamcs@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Romanov &lt;avromanov@sberdevices.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>zram: do not lookup algorithm in backends table</title>
<updated>2022-07-04T01:08:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>senozhatsky@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-22T02:35:01Z</published>
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Always use crypto_has_comp() so that crypto can lookup module, call
usermodhelper to load the modules, wait for usermodhelper to finish and so
on.  Otherwise crypto will do all of these steps under CPU hot-plug lock
and this looks like too much stuff to handle under the CPU hot-plug lock. 
Besides this can end up in a deadlock when usermodhelper triggers a code
path that attempts to lock the CPU hot-plug lock, that zram already holds.

An example of such deadlock:

- path A. zram grabs CPU hot-plug lock, execs /sbin/modprobe from crypto
  and waits for modprobe to finish

disksize_store
 zcomp_create
  __cpuhp_state_add_instance
   __cpuhp_state_add_instance_cpuslocked
    zcomp_cpu_up_prepare
     crypto_alloc_base
      crypto_alg_mod_lookup
       call_usermodehelper_exec
        wait_for_completion_killable
         do_wait_for_common
          schedule

- path B. async work kthread that brings in scsi device. It wants to
  register CPUHP states at some point, and it needs the CPU hot-plug
  lock for that, which is owned by zram.

async_run_entry_fn
 scsi_probe_and_add_lun
  scsi_mq_alloc_queue
   blk_mq_init_queue
    blk_mq_init_allocated_queue
     blk_mq_realloc_hw_ctxs
      __cpuhp_state_add_instance
       __cpuhp_state_add_instance_cpuslocked
        mutex_lock
         schedule

- path C. modprobe sleeps, waiting for all aync works to finish.

load_module
 do_init_module
  async_synchronize_full
   async_synchronize_cookie_domain
    schedule

[senozhatsky@chromium.org: add comment]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220624060606.1014474-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220622023501.517125-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;senozhatsky@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nitin Gupta &lt;ngupta@vflare.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>zram: break the strict dependency from lzo</title>
<updated>2020-12-15T20:13:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Rui Salvaterra</name>
<email>rsalvaterra@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T03:14:35Z</published>
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From the beginning, the zram block device always enabled CRYPTO_LZO,
since lzo-rle is hardcoded as the fallback compression algorithm.  As a
consequence, on systems where another compression algorithm is chosen
(e.g.  CRYPTO_ZSTD), the lzo kernel module becomes unused, while still
having to be built/loaded.

This patch removes the hardcoded lzo-rle dependency and allows the user
to select the default compression algorithm for zram at build time.  The
previous behaviour is kept, as the default algorithm is still lzo-rle.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201207121245.50529-1-rsalvaterra@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Rui Salvaterra &lt;rsalvaterra@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>zcomp: Use ARRAY_SIZE() for backends list</title>
<updated>2020-06-05T02:06:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-04T23:49:52Z</published>
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Instead of keeping NULL terminated array switch to use ARRAY_SIZE()
which helps to further clean up.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200508100758.51644-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>zram: Use local lock to protect per-CPU data</title>
<updated>2020-05-28T08:31:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Galbraith</name>
<email>umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-27T20:11:19Z</published>
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The zcomp driver uses per-CPU compression. The per-CPU data pointer is
acquired with get_cpu_ptr() which implicitly disables preemption.
It allocates memory inside the preempt disabled region which conflicts
with the PREEMPT_RT semantics.

Replace the implicit preemption control with an explicit local lock.
This allows RT kernels to substitute it with a real per CPU lock, which
serializes the access but keeps the code section preemptible. On non RT
kernels this maps to preempt_disable() as before, i.e. no functional
change.

[bigeasy: Use local_lock(), description, drop reordering]

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200527201119.1692513-8-bigeasy@linutronix.de
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<entry>
<title>zram: Allocate struct zcomp_strm as per-CPU memory</title>
<updated>2020-05-28T08:31:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Andrzej Siewior</name>
<email>bigeasy@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-27T20:11:18Z</published>
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zcomp::stream is a per-CPU pointer, pointing to struct zcomp_strm
which contains two pointers. Having struct zcomp_strm allocated
directly as per-CPU memory would avoid one additional memory
allocation and a pointer dereference. This also simplifies the
addition of a local_lock to struct zcomp_strm.

Allocate zcomp::stream directly as per-CPU memory.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200527201119.1692513-7-bigeasy@linutronix.de
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152</title>
<updated>2019-05-30T18:26:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-27T06:55:01Z</published>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lib/lzo: separate lzo-rle from lzo</title>
<updated>2019-03-08T02:32:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Rodgman</name>
<email>dave.rodgman@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-08T00:30:44Z</published>
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To prevent any issues with persistent data, separate lzo-rle from lzo so
that it is treated as a separate algorithm, and lzo is still available.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190205155944.16007-3-dave.rodgman@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Rodgman &lt;dave.rodgman@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer &lt;markus@oberhumer.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Sealey &lt;matt.sealey@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nitin Gupta &lt;nitingupta910@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Purdie &lt;rpurdie@openedhand.com&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sonny Rao &lt;sonnyrao@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>zram: remove zlib from the list of recommended algorithms</title>
<updated>2017-11-16T02:21:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-16T01:33:53Z</published>
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ZSTD tends to outperform deflate/inflate, thus we remove zlib from the
list of recommended algorithms and recommend zstd instead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170912050005.3247-2-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>zram: add zstd to the supported algorithms list</title>
<updated>2017-11-16T02:21:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-16T01:33:49Z</published>
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Add ZSTD to the list of supported compression algorithms.

ZRAM fio perf test:

                      LZO         DEFLATE         ZSTD

#jobs1
WRITE:              (2180MB/s)   (77.2MB/s)      (1429MB/s)
WRITE:              (1617MB/s)   (77.7MB/s)      (1202MB/s)
READ:                (426MB/s)   (595MB/s)       (1181MB/s)
READ:                (422MB/s)   (572MB/s)       (1020MB/s)
READ:                (318MB/s)   (67.8MB/s)      (563MB/s)
WRITE:               (318MB/s)   (67.9MB/s)      (564MB/s)
READ:                (336MB/s)   (68.3MB/s)      (583MB/s)
WRITE:               (335MB/s)   (68.2MB/s)      (582MB/s)
#jobs2
WRITE:              (3441MB/s)   (152MB/s)       (2141MB/s)
WRITE:              (2507MB/s)   (147MB/s)       (1888MB/s)
READ:                (801MB/s)   (1146MB/s)      (1890MB/s)
READ:                (767MB/s)   (1096MB/s)      (2073MB/s)
READ:                (621MB/s)   (126MB/s)       (1009MB/s)
WRITE:               (621MB/s)   (126MB/s)       (1009MB/s)
READ:                (656MB/s)   (125MB/s)       (1075MB/s)
WRITE:               (657MB/s)   (126MB/s)       (1077MB/s)
#jobs3
WRITE:              (4772MB/s)   (225MB/s)       (3394MB/s)
WRITE:              (3905MB/s)   (211MB/s)       (2939MB/s)
READ:               (1216MB/s)   (1608MB/s)      (3218MB/s)
READ:               (1159MB/s)   (1431MB/s)      (2981MB/s)
READ:                (906MB/s)   (156MB/s)       (1457MB/s)
WRITE:               (907MB/s)   (156MB/s)       (1458MB/s)
READ:                (953MB/s)   (158MB/s)       (1595MB/s)
WRITE:               (952MB/s)   (157MB/s)       (1593MB/s)
#jobs4
WRITE:              (6036MB/s)   (265MB/s)       (4469MB/s)
WRITE:              (5059MB/s)   (263MB/s)       (3951MB/s)
READ:               (1618MB/s)   (2066MB/s)      (4276MB/s)
READ:               (1573MB/s)   (1942MB/s)      (3830MB/s)
READ:               (1202MB/s)   (227MB/s)       (1971MB/s)
WRITE:              (1200MB/s)   (227MB/s)       (1968MB/s)
READ:               (1265MB/s)   (226MB/s)       (2116MB/s)
WRITE:              (1264MB/s)   (226MB/s)       (2114MB/s)
#jobs5
WRITE:              (5339MB/s)   (233MB/s)       (3781MB/s)
WRITE:              (4298MB/s)   (234MB/s)       (3276MB/s)
READ:               (1626MB/s)   (2048MB/s)      (4081MB/s)
READ:               (1567MB/s)   (1929MB/s)      (3758MB/s)
READ:               (1174MB/s)   (205MB/s)       (1747MB/s)
WRITE:              (1173MB/s)   (204MB/s)       (1746MB/s)
READ:               (1214MB/s)   (208MB/s)       (1890MB/s)
WRITE:              (1215MB/s)   (208MB/s)       (1892MB/s)
#jobs6
WRITE:              (5666MB/s)   (270MB/s)       (4338MB/s)
WRITE:              (4828MB/s)   (267MB/s)       (3772MB/s)
READ:               (1803MB/s)   (2058MB/s)      (4946MB/s)
READ:               (1805MB/s)   (2156MB/s)      (4711MB/s)
READ:               (1334MB/s)   (235MB/s)       (2135MB/s)
WRITE:              (1335MB/s)   (235MB/s)       (2137MB/s)
READ:               (1364MB/s)   (236MB/s)       (2268MB/s)
WRITE:              (1365MB/s)   (237MB/s)       (2270MB/s)
#jobs7
WRITE:              (5474MB/s)   (270MB/s)       (4300MB/s)
WRITE:              (4666MB/s)   (266MB/s)       (3817MB/s)
READ:               (2022MB/s)   (2319MB/s)      (5472MB/s)
READ:               (1924MB/s)   (2260MB/s)      (5031MB/s)
READ:               (1369MB/s)   (242MB/s)       (2153MB/s)
WRITE:              (1370MB/s)   (242MB/s)       (2155MB/s)
READ:               (1499MB/s)   (246MB/s)       (2310MB/s)
WRITE:              (1497MB/s)   (246MB/s)       (2307MB/s)
#jobs8
WRITE:              (5558MB/s)   (273MB/s)       (4439MB/s)
WRITE:              (4763MB/s)   (271MB/s)       (3918MB/s)
READ:               (2201MB/s)   (2599MB/s)      (6062MB/s)
READ:               (2105MB/s)   (2463MB/s)      (5413MB/s)
READ:               (1490MB/s)   (252MB/s)       (2238MB/s)
WRITE:              (1488MB/s)   (252MB/s)       (2236MB/s)
READ:               (1566MB/s)   (254MB/s)       (2434MB/s)
WRITE:              (1568MB/s)   (254MB/s)       (2437MB/s)
#jobs9
WRITE:              (5120MB/s)   (264MB/s)       (4035MB/s)
WRITE:              (4531MB/s)   (267MB/s)       (3740MB/s)
READ:               (1940MB/s)   (2258MB/s)      (4986MB/s)
READ:               (2024MB/s)   (2387MB/s)      (4871MB/s)
READ:               (1343MB/s)   (246MB/s)       (2038MB/s)
WRITE:              (1342MB/s)   (246MB/s)       (2037MB/s)
READ:               (1553MB/s)   (238MB/s)       (2243MB/s)
WRITE:              (1552MB/s)   (238MB/s)       (2242MB/s)
#jobs10
WRITE:              (5345MB/s)   (271MB/s)       (3988MB/s)
WRITE:              (4750MB/s)   (254MB/s)       (3668MB/s)
READ:               (1876MB/s)   (2363MB/s)      (5150MB/s)
READ:               (1990MB/s)   (2256MB/s)      (5080MB/s)
READ:               (1355MB/s)   (250MB/s)       (2019MB/s)
WRITE:              (1356MB/s)   (251MB/s)       (2020MB/s)
READ:               (1490MB/s)   (252MB/s)       (2202MB/s)
WRITE:              (1488MB/s)   (252MB/s)       (2199MB/s)

jobs1                              perfstat
instructions                 52,065,555,710 (    0.79)    855,731,114,587 (    2.64)       54,280,709,944 (    1.40)
branches                     14,020,427,116 ( 725.847)    101,733,449,582 (1074.521)       11,170,591,067 ( 992.869)
branch-misses                    22,626,174 (   0.16%)        274,197,885 (   0.27%)           25,915,805 (   0.23%)
jobs2                              perfstat
instructions                103,633,110,402 (    0.75)  1,710,822,100,914 (    2.59)      107,879,874,104 (    1.28)
branches                     27,931,237,282 ( 679.203)    203,298,267,479 (1037.326)       22,185,350,842 ( 884.427)
branch-misses                    46,103,811 (   0.17%)        533,747,204 (   0.26%)           49,682,483 (   0.22%)
jobs3                              perfstat
instructions                154,857,283,657 (    0.76)  2,565,748,974,197 (    2.57)      161,515,435,813 (    1.31)
branches                     41,759,490,355 ( 670.529)    304,905,605,277 ( 978.765)       33,215,805,907 ( 888.003)
branch-misses                    74,263,293 (   0.18%)        759,746,240 (   0.25%)           76,841,196 (   0.23%)
jobs4                              perfstat
instructions                206,215,849,076 (    0.75)  3,420,169,460,897 (    2.60)      215,003,061,664 (    1.31)
branches                     55,632,141,739 ( 666.501)    406,394,977,433 ( 927.241)       44,214,322,251 ( 883.532)
branch-misses                   102,287,788 (   0.18%)      1,098,617,314 (   0.27%)          103,891,040 (   0.23%)
jobs5                              perfstat
instructions                258,711,315,588 (    0.67)  4,275,657,533,244 (    2.23)      269,332,235,685 (    1.08)
branches                     69,802,821,166 ( 588.823)    507,996,211,252 ( 797.036)       55,450,846,129 ( 735.095)
branch-misses                   129,217,214 (   0.19%)      1,243,284,991 (   0.24%)          173,512,278 (   0.31%)
jobs6                              perfstat
instructions                312,796,166,008 (    0.61)  5,133,896,344,660 (    2.02)      323,658,769,588 (    1.04)
branches                     84,372,488,583 ( 520.541)    610,310,494,402 ( 697.642)       66,683,292,992 ( 693.939)
branch-misses                   159,438,978 (   0.19%)      1,396,368,563 (   0.23%)          174,406,934 (   0.26%)
jobs7                              perfstat
instructions                363,211,372,930 (    0.56)  5,988,205,600,879 (    1.75)      377,824,674,156 (    0.93)
branches                     98,057,013,765 ( 463.117)    711,841,255,974 ( 598.762)       77,879,009,954 ( 600.443)
branch-misses                   199,513,153 (   0.20%)      1,507,651,077 (   0.21%)          248,203,369 (   0.32%)
jobs8                              perfstat
instructions                413,960,354,615 (    0.52)  6,842,918,558,378 (    1.45)      431,938,486,581 (    0.83)
branches                    111,812,574,884 ( 414.224)    813,299,084,518 ( 491.173)       89,062,699,827 ( 517.795)
branch-misses                   233,584,845 (   0.21%)      1,531,593,921 (   0.19%)          286,818,489 (   0.32%)
jobs9                              perfstat
instructions                465,976,220,300 (    0.53)  7,698,467,237,372 (    1.47)      486,352,600,321 (    0.84)
branches                    125,931,456,162 ( 424.063)    915,207,005,715 ( 498.192)      100,370,404,090 ( 517.439)
branch-misses                   256,992,445 (   0.20%)      1,782,809,816 (   0.19%)          345,239,380 (   0.34%)
jobs10                             perfstat
instructions                517,406,372,715 (    0.53)  8,553,527,312,900 (    1.48)      540,732,653,094 (    0.84)
branches                    139,839,780,676 ( 427.732)  1,016,737,699,389 ( 503.172)      111,696,557,638 ( 516.750)
branch-misses                   259,595,561 (   0.19%)      1,952,570,279 (   0.19%)          357,818,661 (   0.32%)

seconds elapsed        20.630411534     96.084546565    12.743373571
seconds elapsed        22.292627625     100.984155001   14.407413560
seconds elapsed        22.396016966     110.344880848   14.032201392
seconds elapsed        22.517330949     113.351459170   14.243074935
seconds elapsed        28.548305104     156.515193765   19.159286861
seconds elapsed        30.453538116     164.559937678   19.362492717
seconds elapsed        33.467108086     188.486827481   21.492612173
seconds elapsed        35.617727591     209.602677783   23.256422492
seconds elapsed        42.584239509     243.959902566   28.458540338
seconds elapsed        47.683632526     269.635248851   31.542404137

Over all, ZSTD has slower WRITE, but much faster READ (perhaps
a static compression buffer used during the test helped ZSTD a
lot), which results in faster test results.

Memory consumption (zram mm_stat file):

zram LZO mm_stat
mm_stat (jobs1): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33558528        0        0
mm_stat (jobs2): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33558528        0        0
mm_stat (jobs3): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33562624        0        0
mm_stat (jobs4): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33558528        0        0
mm_stat (jobs5): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33558528        0        0
mm_stat (jobs6): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33562624        0        0
mm_stat (jobs7): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33566720        0        0
mm_stat (jobs8): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33558528        0        0
mm_stat (jobs9): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33558528        0        0
mm_stat (jobs10): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33562624        0        0

zram DEFLATE mm_stat
mm_stat (jobs1): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0
mm_stat (jobs2): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0
mm_stat (jobs3): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0
mm_stat (jobs4): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0
mm_stat (jobs5): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0
mm_stat (jobs6): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0
mm_stat (jobs7): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25190400        0        0
mm_stat (jobs8): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25190400        0        0
mm_stat (jobs9): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0
mm_stat (jobs10): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0

zram ZSTD mm_stat
mm_stat (jobs1): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0
mm_stat (jobs2): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0
mm_stat (jobs3): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16785408        0        0
mm_stat (jobs4): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0
mm_stat (jobs5): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0
mm_stat (jobs6): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0
mm_stat (jobs7): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0
mm_stat (jobs8): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0
mm_stat (jobs9): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16785408        0        0
mm_stat (jobs10): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0

==================================================================================

Official benchmarks [1]:

Compressor name         Ratio   Compression     Decompress.
zstd 1.1.3 -1           2.877   430 MB/s        1110 MB/s
zlib 1.2.8 -1           2.743   110 MB/s        400 MB/s
brotli 0.5.2 -0         2.708   400 MB/s        430 MB/s
quicklz 1.5.0 -1        2.238   550 MB/s        710 MB/s
lzo1x 2.09 -1           2.108   650 MB/s        830 MB/s
lz4 1.7.5               2.101   720 MB/s        3600 MB/s
snappy 1.1.3            2.091   500 MB/s        1650 MB/s
lzf 3.6 -1              2.077   400 MB/s        860 MB/s

Minchan said:

: I did test with my sample data and compared zstd with deflate.  zstd's
: compress ratio is lower a little bit but compression speed is much faster
: 3 times more and decompress speed is too 2 times more.  With different
: data, it is different but overall, zstd would be better for speed at the
: cost of a little lower compress ratio(about 5%) so I believe it's worth to
: replace deflate.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/zstd

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170912050005.3247-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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