From: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>,
Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Richard Chang <richardycc@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/11] zsmalloc: fold zs_obj_write() into zs_store()
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 17:00:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <avNNjoQoBs7qIXd3@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261110054836.1515030-11-senozhatsky@chromium.org>
On Tue, Nov 10, 2026 at 02:48:15PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> zram and zswap always call zs_obj_write() right after zs_malloc(), and
> zs_obj_write() has to take pool->lock and look up object location
> again, which zs_malloc() just did.
>
> Replace zs_malloc() and zs_obj_write() with one single zs_store()
> call.
>
> zs_store() takes zspage read lock under class->lock, before it drops
> class->lock to copy the data, while zs_obj_write() used to take it
> under pool->lock. Compaction and page migration already take zspage
> lock under class->lock, so this follows the existing pool->lock ->
> class->lock -> zspage->lock order. We don't need pool->lock there,
> zs_store() doesn't look up the object via the handle, it already has
> the zspage from the allocation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
> ---
> Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/mm/zsmalloc.rst | 4 +-
> drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 42 +++++---------
> include/linux/zsmalloc.h | 6 +-
> mm/zsmalloc.c | 58 +++++++++-----------
> mm/zswap.c | 5 +-
> 6 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)
zswap and zsmalloc bits LGTM:
Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-10 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-10 5:48 [PATCH v2 00/11] zsmalloc: redesign object alloc API Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 5:48 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] zram: drop stale comment in write_incompressible_page() Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 5:48 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] zram: drop get_slot_handle() and set_slot_handle() Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 5:48 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] zsmalloc: return handle from obj_allocated() Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 16:28 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-11-10 5:48 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] zsmalloc: switch handle type to struct zs_handle Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 16:35 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-11-10 5:48 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] zram: check mem_limit before allocating zsmalloc object Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 5:48 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] zram: allocate zsmalloc object under slot lock Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 5:48 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] zswap: do not free the entry if its pool is NULL Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 16:37 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-11-10 5:48 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] zsmalloc: encode 1-based obj_idx so valid obj is never 0 Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 16:44 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-11-10 5:48 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] zsmalloc: embed struct zs_handle into zram and zswap entries Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 16:57 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-11-10 5:48 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] zsmalloc: fold zs_obj_write() into zs_store() Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 17:00 ` Yosry Ahmed [this message]
2026-11-10 5:48 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] zsmalloc: populate new zspage outside class->lock in zs_store() Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 17:03 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-11-10 16:16 ` [PATCH v2 00/11] zsmalloc: redesign object alloc API Yosry Ahmed
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