From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: jiayuan.chen@linux.dev, "Jiayuan Chen" <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>,
"Nhat Pham" <nphamcs@gmail.com>,
"Shakeel Butt" <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
"Yosry Ahmed" <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>,
"SeongJae Park" <sj@kernel.org>, "Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>,
"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
"Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>,
"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@kernel.org>,
"Roman Gushchin" <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
"Muchun Song" <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Chengming Zhou" <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>,
"Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>,
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Subject: [PATCH mm-new v3 1/2] mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:18:22 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260213071827.5688-2-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260213071827.5688-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>
The global zswap_stored_incompressible_pages counter was added in commit
dca4437a5861 ("mm/zswap: store <PAGE_SIZE compression failed page as-is")
to track how many pages are stored in raw (uncompressed) form in zswap.
However, in containerized environments, knowing which cgroup is
contributing incompressible pages is essential for effective resource
management [1].
Add a new memcg stat 'zswap_incomp' to track incompressible pages per
cgroup. This helps administrators and orchestrators to:
1. Identify workloads that produce incompressible data (e.g., encrypted
data, already-compressed media, random data) and may not benefit from
zswap.
2. Make informed decisions about workload placement - moving
incompressible workloads to nodes with larger swap backing devices
rather than relying on zswap.
3. Debug zswap efficiency issues at the cgroup level without needing to
correlate global stats with individual cgroups.
While the compression ratio can be estimated from existing stats
(zswap / zswapped * PAGE_SIZE), this doesn't distinguish between
"uniformly poor compression" and "a few completely incompressible pages
mixed with highly compressible ones". The zswap_incomp stat provides
direct visibility into the latter case.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAF8kJuONDFj4NAksaR4j_WyDbNwNGYLmTe-o76rqU17La=nkOw@mail.gmail.com/
Acked-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 5 +++++
include/linux/memcontrol.h | 1 +
mm/memcontrol.c | 6 ++++++
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
index 7f5b59d95fce..78a329414615 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
@@ -1737,6 +1737,11 @@ The following nested keys are defined.
zswpwb
Number of pages written from zswap to swap.
+ zswap_incomp
+ Number of incompressible pages currently stored in zswap
+ without compression. These pages could not be compressed to
+ a size smaller than PAGE_SIZE, so they are stored as-is.
+
thp_fault_alloc (npn)
Number of transparent hugepages which were allocated to satisfy
a page fault. This counter is not present when CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index b6c82c8f73e1..d8ec05dd5d43 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ enum memcg_stat_item {
MEMCG_KMEM,
MEMCG_ZSWAP_B,
MEMCG_ZSWAPPED,
+ MEMCG_ZSWAP_INCOMP,
MEMCG_NR_STAT,
};
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 007413a53b45..4c5672169753 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -341,6 +341,7 @@ static const unsigned int memcg_stat_items[] = {
MEMCG_KMEM,
MEMCG_ZSWAP_B,
MEMCG_ZSWAPPED,
+ MEMCG_ZSWAP_INCOMP,
};
#define NR_MEMCG_NODE_STAT_ITEMS ARRAY_SIZE(memcg_node_stat_items)
@@ -1346,6 +1347,7 @@ static const struct memory_stat memory_stats[] = {
#ifdef CONFIG_ZSWAP
{ "zswap", MEMCG_ZSWAP_B },
{ "zswapped", MEMCG_ZSWAPPED },
+ { "zswap_incomp", MEMCG_ZSWAP_INCOMP },
#endif
{ "file_mapped", NR_FILE_MAPPED },
{ "file_dirty", NR_FILE_DIRTY },
@@ -5458,6 +5460,8 @@ void obj_cgroup_charge_zswap(struct obj_cgroup *objcg, size_t size)
memcg = obj_cgroup_memcg(objcg);
mod_memcg_state(memcg, MEMCG_ZSWAP_B, size);
mod_memcg_state(memcg, MEMCG_ZSWAPPED, 1);
+ if (size == PAGE_SIZE)
+ mod_memcg_state(memcg, MEMCG_ZSWAP_INCOMP, 1);
rcu_read_unlock();
}
@@ -5481,6 +5485,8 @@ void obj_cgroup_uncharge_zswap(struct obj_cgroup *objcg, size_t size)
memcg = obj_cgroup_memcg(objcg);
mod_memcg_state(memcg, MEMCG_ZSWAP_B, -size);
mod_memcg_state(memcg, MEMCG_ZSWAPPED, -1);
+ if (size == PAGE_SIZE)
+ mod_memcg_state(memcg, MEMCG_ZSWAP_INCOMP, -1);
rcu_read_unlock();
}
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-13 7:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-13 7:18 [PATCH mm-new v3 0/2] " Jiayuan Chen
2026-02-13 7:18 ` Jiayuan Chen [this message]
2026-02-13 7:18 ` [PATCH mm-new v3 2/2] selftests/cgroup: add test for zswap " Jiayuan Chen
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