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From: Yue Hu <zbestahu@gmail.com>
To: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Chunhai Guo <guochunhai@vivo.com>,
	huyue2@coolpad.com, linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] erofs: relaxed temporary buffers allocation on readahead
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2024 09:49:48 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240127094948.000024ad.zbestahu@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240126140142.201718-1-hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>

On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 22:01:42 +0800
Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:

> From: Chunhai Guo <guochunhai@vivo.com>
> 
> Even with inplace decompression, sometimes very few temporary buffers
> may be still needed for a single decompression shot (e.g. 16 pages for
> 64k sliding window or 4 pages for 16k sliding window).  In low-memory
> scenarios, it would be better to try to allocate with GFP_NOWAIT on
> readahead first.  That can help reduce the time spent on page allocation
> under durative memory pressure.
> 
> Here are detailed performance numbers under multi-app launch benchmark
> workload [1] on ARM64 Android devices (8-core CPU and 8GB of memory)
> running a 5.15 LTS kernel with EROFS of 4k pclusters:
> 
> +----------------------------------------------+
> |      LZ4       | vanilla | patched |  diff   |
> |----------------+---------+---------+---------|
> |  Average (ms)  |  3364   |  2684   | -20.21% | [64k sliding window]
> |----------------+---------+---------+---------|
> |  Average (ms)  |  2079   |  1610   | -22.56% | [16k sliding window]
> +----------------------------------------------+
> 
> The total size of system images for 4k pclusters is almost unchanged:
> (64k sliding window)  9,117,044 KB
> (16k sliding window)  9,113,096 KB
> 
> Therefore, in addition to switch the sliding window from 64k to 16k,
> after applying this patch, it can eventually save 52.14% (3364 -> 1610)
> on average with no memory reservation.  That is particularly useful for
> embedded devices with limited resources.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240109074143.4138783-1-guochunhai@vivo.com
> 
> Suggested-by: Gao Xiang <xiang@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Chunhai Guo <guochunhai@vivo.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>

Reviewed-by: Yue Hu <huyue2@coolpad.com>

      reply	other threads:[~2024-01-27  1:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-20 14:55 [PATCH v2] erofs: relaxed temporary buffers allocation on readahead Chunhai Guo via Linux-erofs
2024-01-22  2:07 ` Gao Xiang
2024-01-22  3:49   ` Chunhai Guo via Linux-erofs
2024-01-22  4:37     ` Gao Xiang
2024-01-22  7:42       ` Chunhai Guo via Linux-erofs
2024-01-26  2:41         ` Chunhai Guo via Linux-erofs
2024-01-26  2:47           ` Gao Xiang
2024-01-26  3:42             ` Chunhai Guo via Linux-erofs
2024-01-26  3:49               ` Gao Xiang
2024-01-26  3:56                 ` 答复: " Chunhai Guo via Linux-erofs
2024-01-26  5:36                   ` [PATCH v3] " Gao Xiang
2024-01-26 10:46                     ` Yue Hu
2024-01-26 13:30                       ` Gao Xiang
2024-01-26 14:01                       ` [PATCH v4] " Gao Xiang
2024-01-27  1:49                         ` Yue Hu [this message]

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