From: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
chengming.zhou@linux.dev, dsterba@suse.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
nphamcs@gmail.com, terrelln@fb.com, yosry@kernel.org,
riel@surriel.com, shakeel.butt@linux.dev, alex@ghiti.fr,
senozhatsky@chromium.org,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
davem@davemloft.net, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-team@meta.com
Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: zswap: use separate compression and decompression requests
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2026 09:30:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261009163146.83112-2-usama.arif@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261009163146.83112-1-usama.arif@linux.dev>
Stores and loads serialize on the same per-CPU acomp request and mutex.
A low-priority store can be preempted as soon as the compressor drops
its stream lock, while it still holds the mutex. A higher-priority load
on that CPU then waits until the store runs again, which can take a
long time when other tasks are runnable.
Give compression and decompression their own request, completion wait
and mutex. Since commit e2c3b6b21c77f ("mm: zswap: use SG list
decompression APIs from zsmalloc"), the per-CPU buffer is only used for
compression, so group it with the compression request. Independent
requests can share the per-CPU transform; the codecs and drivers
synchronize their shared state internally. Loads can still wait for
each other on the decompression mutex, and stores still serialize on
the compression mutex.
acomp_request_free() ignores NULL requests, so drop the check in
acomp_ctx_free().
This follows the proposal from Sergey Senozhatsky for the same split
for zram [1].
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261005122036.718976-10-senozhatsky@chromium.org/
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
---
mm/zswap.c | 108 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
1 file changed, 64 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
index ae19e301fced7..23c4298765795 100644
--- a/mm/zswap.c
+++ b/mm/zswap.c
@@ -137,14 +137,25 @@ bool zswap_never_enabled(void)
* data structures
**********************************/
-struct crypto_acomp_ctx {
- struct crypto_acomp *acomp;
+struct zswap_acomp_req {
struct acomp_req *req;
struct crypto_wait wait;
- u8 *buffer;
struct mutex mutex;
};
+/* The compression mutex also protects the output buffer. */
+struct zswap_comp_ctx {
+ struct zswap_acomp_req areq;
+ u8 *buffer;
+};
+
+/* Separate requests, so that decompression does not wait for compression. */
+struct crypto_acomp_ctx {
+ struct crypto_acomp *acomp;
+ struct zswap_comp_ctx comp;
+ struct zswap_acomp_req decomp;
+};
+
/*
* The lock ordering is zswap_tree.lock -> zswap_pool.lru_lock.
* The only case where lru_lock is not acquired while holding tree.lock is
@@ -270,14 +281,10 @@ static void acomp_ctx_free(struct crypto_acomp_ctx *acomp_ctx)
if (!acomp_ctx)
return;
- /*
- * If there was an error in allocating @acomp_ctx->req, it
- * would be set to NULL.
- */
- if (acomp_ctx->req)
- acomp_request_free(acomp_ctx->req);
-
- acomp_ctx->req = NULL;
+ acomp_request_free(acomp_ctx->comp.areq.req);
+ acomp_ctx->comp.areq.req = NULL;
+ acomp_request_free(acomp_ctx->decomp.req);
+ acomp_ctx->decomp.req = NULL;
/*
* We have to handle both cases here: an error pointer return from
@@ -289,8 +296,8 @@ static void acomp_ctx_free(struct crypto_acomp_ctx *acomp_ctx)
acomp_ctx->acomp = NULL;
- kfree(acomp_ctx->buffer);
- acomp_ctx->buffer = NULL;
+ kfree(acomp_ctx->comp.buffer);
+ acomp_ctx->comp.buffer = NULL;
}
static struct zswap_pool *zswap_pool_create(char *compressor)
@@ -796,6 +803,28 @@ static void zswap_entry_free(struct zswap_entry *entry)
/*********************************
* compressed storage functions
**********************************/
+static int zswap_acomp_req_init(struct zswap_acomp_req *areq,
+ struct crypto_acomp *acomp)
+{
+ /* acomp_request_alloc() returns NULL in case of an error. */
+ areq->req = acomp_request_alloc(acomp);
+ if (!areq->req)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ crypto_init_wait(&areq->wait);
+
+ /*
+ * if the backend of acomp is async zip, crypto_req_done() will wakeup
+ * crypto_wait_req(); if the backend of acomp is scomp, the callback
+ * won't be called, crypto_wait_req() will return without blocking.
+ */
+ acomp_request_set_callback(areq->req, CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_BACKLOG,
+ crypto_req_done, &areq->wait);
+
+ mutex_init(&areq->mutex);
+ return 0;
+}
+
static int zswap_cpu_comp_prepare(unsigned int cpu, struct hlist_node *node)
{
struct zswap_pool *pool = hlist_entry(node, struct zswap_pool, node);
@@ -811,8 +840,8 @@ static int zswap_cpu_comp_prepare(unsigned int cpu, struct hlist_node *node)
return 0;
}
- acomp_ctx->buffer = kmalloc_node(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
- if (!acomp_ctx->buffer)
+ acomp_ctx->comp.buffer = kmalloc_node(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
+ if (!acomp_ctx->comp.buffer)
return ret;
/*
@@ -827,25 +856,13 @@ static int zswap_cpu_comp_prepare(unsigned int cpu, struct hlist_node *node)
goto fail;
}
- /* acomp_request_alloc() returns NULL in case of an error. */
- acomp_ctx->req = acomp_request_alloc(acomp_ctx->acomp);
- if (!acomp_ctx->req) {
+ if (zswap_acomp_req_init(&acomp_ctx->comp.areq, acomp_ctx->acomp) ||
+ zswap_acomp_req_init(&acomp_ctx->decomp, acomp_ctx->acomp)) {
pr_err("could not alloc crypto acomp_request %s\n",
pool->tfm_name);
goto fail;
}
- crypto_init_wait(&acomp_ctx->wait);
-
- /*
- * if the backend of acomp is async zip, crypto_req_done() will wakeup
- * crypto_wait_req(); if the backend of acomp is scomp, the callback
- * won't be called, crypto_wait_req() will return without blocking.
- */
- acomp_request_set_callback(acomp_ctx->req, CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_BACKLOG,
- crypto_req_done, &acomp_ctx->wait);
-
- mutex_init(&acomp_ctx->mutex);
return 0;
fail:
@@ -856,7 +873,7 @@ static int zswap_cpu_comp_prepare(unsigned int cpu, struct hlist_node *node)
static bool zswap_compress(struct folio *folio, long index,
struct zswap_entry *entry, struct zswap_pool *pool)
{
- struct crypto_acomp_ctx *acomp_ctx;
+ struct zswap_comp_ctx *comp_ctx;
struct scatterlist input, output;
int comp_ret = 0, alloc_ret = 0;
unsigned int dlen = PAGE_SIZE;
@@ -865,15 +882,16 @@ static bool zswap_compress(struct folio *folio, long index,
u8 *dst;
bool mapped = false;
- acomp_ctx = raw_cpu_ptr(pool->acomp_ctx);
- mutex_lock(&acomp_ctx->mutex);
+ comp_ctx = &raw_cpu_ptr(pool->acomp_ctx)->comp;
+ mutex_lock(&comp_ctx->areq.mutex);
- dst = acomp_ctx->buffer;
+ dst = comp_ctx->buffer;
sg_init_table(&input, 1);
sg_set_folio(&input, folio, PAGE_SIZE, index * PAGE_SIZE);
sg_init_one(&output, dst, PAGE_SIZE);
- acomp_request_set_params(acomp_ctx->req, &input, &output, PAGE_SIZE, dlen);
+ acomp_request_set_params(comp_ctx->areq.req, &input, &output,
+ PAGE_SIZE, dlen);
/*
* it maybe looks a little bit silly that we send an asynchronous request,
@@ -885,10 +903,12 @@ static bool zswap_compress(struct folio *folio, long index,
* existing method to send the second page before the first page is done
* in one thread doing zswap.
* but in different threads running on different cpu, we have different
- * acomp instance, so multiple threads can do (de)compression in parallel.
+ * acomp instance, and compression and decompression use separate
+ * requests, so multiple threads can do (de)compression in parallel.
*/
- comp_ret = crypto_wait_req(crypto_acomp_compress(acomp_ctx->req), &acomp_ctx->wait);
- dlen = acomp_ctx->req->dlen;
+ comp_ret = crypto_wait_req(crypto_acomp_compress(comp_ctx->areq.req),
+ &comp_ctx->areq.wait);
+ dlen = comp_ctx->areq.req->dlen;
/*
* If a page cannot be compressed into a size smaller than PAGE_SIZE,
@@ -932,7 +952,7 @@ static bool zswap_compress(struct folio *folio, long index,
else if (alloc_ret)
zswap_reject_alloc_fail++;
- mutex_unlock(&acomp_ctx->mutex);
+ mutex_unlock(&comp_ctx->areq.mutex);
return comp_ret == 0 && alloc_ret == 0;
}
@@ -948,7 +968,7 @@ static bool zswap_decompress(struct zswap_entry *entry, struct folio *folio)
return false;
acomp_ctx = raw_cpu_ptr(pool->acomp_ctx);
- mutex_lock(&acomp_ctx->mutex);
+ mutex_lock(&acomp_ctx->decomp.mutex);
zs_obj_read_sg_begin(pool->zs_pool, entry->handle, input, entry->length);
/* zswap entries of length PAGE_SIZE are not compressed. */
@@ -965,15 +985,15 @@ static bool zswap_decompress(struct zswap_entry *entry, struct folio *folio)
} else {
sg_init_table(&output, 1);
sg_set_folio(&output, folio, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
- acomp_request_set_params(acomp_ctx->req, input, &output,
+ acomp_request_set_params(acomp_ctx->decomp.req, input, &output,
entry->length, PAGE_SIZE);
- ret = crypto_acomp_decompress(acomp_ctx->req);
- ret = crypto_wait_req(ret, &acomp_ctx->wait);
- dlen = acomp_ctx->req->dlen;
+ ret = crypto_acomp_decompress(acomp_ctx->decomp.req);
+ ret = crypto_wait_req(ret, &acomp_ctx->decomp.wait);
+ dlen = acomp_ctx->decomp.req->dlen;
}
zs_obj_read_sg_end(pool->zs_pool, entry->handle);
- mutex_unlock(&acomp_ctx->mutex);
+ mutex_unlock(&acomp_ctx->decomp.mutex);
if (!ret && dlen == PAGE_SIZE)
return true;
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-09 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-09 16:30 [PATCH v2 0/2] mm: zswap: reduce request contention on loads Usama Arif
2026-10-09 16:30 ` Usama Arif [this message]
2026-10-10 10:14 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: zswap: use separate compression and decompression requests Nhat Pham
2026-10-09 16:30 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: zswap: use stack requests for synchronous decompression Usama Arif
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