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[v2] mm: shmem: skip swapcache for swapin of synchronous swap device

Message ID 04997e54c276eff40a6119a90d36a4e71aade89c.1735806921.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com (mailing list archive)
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Series [v2] mm: shmem: skip swapcache for swapin of synchronous swap device | expand

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Baolin Wang Jan. 2, 2025, 8:40 a.m. UTC
With fast swap devices (such as zram), swapin latency is crucial to applications.
For shmem swapin, similar to anonymous memory swapin, we can skip the swapcache
operation to improve swapin latency. Testing 1G shmem sequential swapin without
THP enabled, I observed approximately a 6% performance improvement:
 (Note: I repeated 5 times and took the mean data for each test)

w/o patch	w/ patch	changes
534.8ms		501ms		+6.3%

In addition, currently, we always split the large swap entry stored in the
shmem mapping during shmem large folio swapin, which is not perfect, especially
with a fast swap device. We should swap in the whole large folio instead of
splitting the precious large folios to take advantage of the large folios
and improve the swapin latency if the swap device is synchronous device,
which is similar to anonymous memory mTHP swapin. Testing 1G shmem sequential
swapin with 64K mTHP and 2M mTHP, I observed obvious performance improvement:

mTHP=64K
w/o patch	w/ patch	changes
550.4ms		169.6ms		+69%

mTHP=2M
w/o patch	w/ patch	changes
542.8ms		126.8ms		+77%

Note that skipping swapcache requires attention to concurrent swapin scenarios.
Fortunately the swapcache_prepare() and shmem_add_to_page_cache() can help
identify concurrent swapin and large swap entry split scenarios, and return
-EEXIST for retry.

Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
---
Changes from v1:
 - Skip calling delete_from_swap_cache() in shmem_set_folio_swapin_error()
 when skipping the swapcache.
---
 mm/shmem.c | 111 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 106 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Comments

Matthew Wilcox Jan. 2, 2025, 1:10 p.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 04:40:17PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:
> With fast swap devices (such as zram), swapin latency is crucial to applications.
> For shmem swapin, similar to anonymous memory swapin, we can skip the swapcache
> operation to improve swapin latency.

OK, but now we have more complexity.  Why can't we always skip the
swapcache on swapin?  (Actually, I think we can always skip the
swapcache on swapout too, but that's a different matter).

> +static struct folio *shmem_swap_alloc_folio(struct inode *inode, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> +					    pgoff_t index, swp_entry_t entry, int order, gfp_t gfp)

Please wrap at 80 columns and use two tabs for indenting subsequent
lines.  ie:

static struct folio *shmem_swap_alloc_folio(struct inode *inode,
		struct vm_area_struct *vma, pgoff_t index, swp_entry_t entry,
		int order, gfp_t gfp)
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diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 95b80c24f6f9..e82ef1ef1c68 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1967,6 +1967,66 @@  static struct folio *shmem_alloc_and_add_folio(struct vm_fault *vmf,
 	return ERR_PTR(error);
 }
 
+static struct folio *shmem_swap_alloc_folio(struct inode *inode, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+					    pgoff_t index, swp_entry_t entry, int order, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+	struct shmem_inode_info *info = SHMEM_I(inode);
+	struct folio *new;
+	void *shadow;
+	int nr_pages;
+
+	/*
+	 * We have arrived here because our zones are constrained, so don't
+	 * limit chance of success by further cpuset and node constraints.
+	 */
+	gfp &= ~GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK;
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+	if (order > 0) {
+		gfp_t huge_gfp = vma_thp_gfp_mask(vma);
+
+		gfp = limit_gfp_mask(huge_gfp, gfp);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	new = shmem_alloc_folio(gfp, order, info, index);
+	if (!new)
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+	nr_pages = folio_nr_pages(new);
+	if (mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio(new, vma ? vma->vm_mm : NULL,
+					   gfp, entry)) {
+		folio_put(new);
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Prevent parallel swapin from proceeding with the swap cache flag.
+	 *
+	 * Of course there is another possible concurrent scenario as well,
+	 * that is to say, the swap cache flag of a large folio has already
+	 * been set by swapcache_prepare(), while another thread may have
+	 * already split the large swap entry stored in the shmem mapping.
+	 * In this case, shmem_add_to_page_cache() will help identify the
+	 * concurrent swapin and return -EEXIST.
+	 */
+	if (swapcache_prepare(entry, nr_pages)) {
+		folio_put(new);
+		return ERR_PTR(-EEXIST);
+	}
+
+	__folio_set_locked(new);
+	__folio_set_swapbacked(new);
+	new->swap = entry;
+
+	mem_cgroup_swapin_uncharge_swap(entry, nr_pages);
+	shadow = get_shadow_from_swap_cache(entry);
+	if (shadow)
+		workingset_refault(new, shadow);
+	folio_add_lru(new);
+	swap_read_folio(new, NULL);
+	return new;
+}
+
 /*
  * When a page is moved from swapcache to shmem filecache (either by the
  * usual swapin of shmem_get_folio_gfp(), or by the less common swapoff of
@@ -2070,7 +2130,8 @@  static int shmem_replace_folio(struct folio **foliop, gfp_t gfp,
 }
 
 static void shmem_set_folio_swapin_error(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
-					 struct folio *folio, swp_entry_t swap)
+					 struct folio *folio, swp_entry_t swap,
+					 bool skip_swapcache)
 {
 	struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
 	swp_entry_t swapin_error;
@@ -2086,7 +2147,8 @@  static void shmem_set_folio_swapin_error(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
 
 	nr_pages = folio_nr_pages(folio);
 	folio_wait_writeback(folio);
-	delete_from_swap_cache(folio);
+	if (!skip_swapcache)
+		delete_from_swap_cache(folio);
 	/*
 	 * Don't treat swapin error folio as alloced. Otherwise inode->i_blocks
 	 * won't be 0 when inode is released and thus trigger WARN_ON(i_blocks)
@@ -2190,6 +2252,7 @@  static int shmem_swapin_folio(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
 	struct shmem_inode_info *info = SHMEM_I(inode);
 	struct swap_info_struct *si;
 	struct folio *folio = NULL;
+	bool skip_swapcache = false;
 	swp_entry_t swap;
 	int error, nr_pages;
 
@@ -2211,6 +2274,8 @@  static int shmem_swapin_folio(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
 	/* Look it up and read it in.. */
 	folio = swap_cache_get_folio(swap, NULL, 0);
 	if (!folio) {
+		int order = xa_get_order(&mapping->i_pages, index);
+		bool fallback_order0 = false;
 		int split_order;
 
 		/* Or update major stats only when swapin succeeds?? */
@@ -2220,6 +2285,33 @@  static int shmem_swapin_folio(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
 			count_memcg_event_mm(fault_mm, PGMAJFAULT);
 		}
 
+		/*
+		 * If uffd is active for the vma, we need per-page fault
+		 * fidelity to maintain the uffd semantics, then fallback
+		 * to swapin order-0 folio, as well as for zswap case.
+		 */
+		if (order > 0 && ((vma && unlikely(userfaultfd_armed(vma))) ||
+				  !zswap_never_enabled()))
+			fallback_order0 = true;
+
+		/* Skip swapcache for synchronous device. */
+		if (!fallback_order0 && data_race(si->flags & SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO)) {
+			folio = shmem_swap_alloc_folio(inode, vma, index, swap, order, gfp);
+			if (!IS_ERR(folio)) {
+				skip_swapcache = true;
+				goto alloced;
+			}
+
+			/*
+			 * Fallback to swapin order-0 folio unless the swap entry
+			 * already exists.
+			 */
+			error = PTR_ERR(folio);
+			folio = NULL;
+			if (error == -EEXIST)
+				goto failed;
+		}
+
 		/*
 		 * Now swap device can only swap in order 0 folio, then we
 		 * should split the large swap entry stored in the pagecache
@@ -2250,9 +2342,10 @@  static int shmem_swapin_folio(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
 		}
 	}
 
+alloced:
 	/* We have to do this with folio locked to prevent races */
 	folio_lock(folio);
-	if (!folio_test_swapcache(folio) ||
+	if ((!skip_swapcache && !folio_test_swapcache(folio)) ||
 	    folio->swap.val != swap.val ||
 	    !shmem_confirm_swap(mapping, index, swap)) {
 		error = -EEXIST;
@@ -2288,7 +2381,12 @@  static int shmem_swapin_folio(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
 	if (sgp == SGP_WRITE)
 		folio_mark_accessed(folio);
 
-	delete_from_swap_cache(folio);
+	if (skip_swapcache) {
+		folio->swap.val = 0;
+		swapcache_clear(si, swap, nr_pages);
+	} else {
+		delete_from_swap_cache(folio);
+	}
 	folio_mark_dirty(folio);
 	swap_free_nr(swap, nr_pages);
 	put_swap_device(si);
@@ -2299,8 +2397,11 @@  static int shmem_swapin_folio(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
 	if (!shmem_confirm_swap(mapping, index, swap))
 		error = -EEXIST;
 	if (error == -EIO)
-		shmem_set_folio_swapin_error(inode, index, folio, swap);
+		shmem_set_folio_swapin_error(inode, index, folio, swap,
+					     skip_swapcache);
 unlock:
+	if (skip_swapcache)
+		swapcache_clear(si, swap, folio_nr_pages(folio));
 	if (folio) {
 		folio_unlock(folio);
 		folio_put(folio);