Re: [PATCHv8 3/6] zram: factor out single stream compression

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:27:56 +0300 Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is preparation patch to add multi stream support to zcomp.
> 
> Introduce struct zcomp_strm_single and a set of functions to manage zcomp_strm
> stream access. zcomp_strm_single implements single compession stream, same way
> as current zcomp implementation. This moves zcomp_strm stream control and
> locking from zcomp, so compressing backend zcomp is not aware of required
> locking.
> 
> Single and multi streams require different locking schemes. Minchan Kim
> reported that spinlock-based locking scheme (which is used in multi stream
> implementation) has demonstrated a severe perfomance regression for single
> compression stream case, comparing to mutex-based.
> see https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/18/16
> 
> The following set of functions added:
> - zcomp_strm_single_get()/zcomp_strm_single_put()
>   get and put compression stream, implement required locking
> - zcomp_strm_single_create()/zcomp_strm_single_destroy()
>   create and destroy zcomp_strm_single
> 
> New ->strm_get() and ->strm_put() callbacks added to zcomp, which are set to
> zcomp_strm_single_get() and zcomp_strm_single_put() during initialisation.
> Instead of direct locking and zcomp_strm access from zcomp_strm_get() and
> zcomp_strm_put(), zcomp now calls ->strm_get() and ->strm_put()
> correspondingly.
> 
> ...
>
> +static struct zcomp_strm *zcomp_strm_single_get(struct zcomp *comp)
> +{
> +	struct zcomp_strm_single *zs = comp->stream;
> +	mutex_lock(&zs->strm_lock);
> +	return zs->zstrm;
> +}
> +
> +static void zcomp_strm_single_put(struct zcomp *comp, struct zcomp_strm *zstrm)
> +{
> +	struct zcomp_strm_single *zs = comp->stream;
> +	mutex_unlock(&zs->strm_lock);
> +}

Again, these are not "get" and "put" operations.

> 
> ...
>