Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] mm: ZSWAP swap-out of mTHP folios

["Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>]

Kanchana P Sridhar <kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com> writes:

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>
> Performance Testing:
> ====================
> Testing of this patch-series was done with the v6.11-rc3 mainline, without
> and with this patch-series, on an Intel Sapphire Rapids server,
> dual-socket 56 cores per socket, 4 IAA devices per socket.
>
> The system has 503 GiB RAM, with a 4G SSD as the backing swap device for
> ZSWAP. Core frequency was fixed at 2500MHz.
>
> The vm-scalability "usemem" test was run in a cgroup whose memory.high
> was fixed. Following a similar methodology as in Ryan Roberts'
> "Swap-out mTHP without splitting" series [2], 70 usemem processes were
> run, each allocating and writing 1G of memory:
>
>     usemem --init-time -w -O -n 70 1g
>
> Since I was constrained to get the 70 usemem processes to generate
> swapout activity with the 4G SSD, I ended up using different cgroup
> memory.high fixed limits for the experiments with 64K mTHP and 2M THP:
>
> 64K mTHP experiments: cgroup memory fixed at 60G
> 2M THP experiments  : cgroup memory fixed at 55G
>
> The vm/sysfs stats included after the performance data provide details
> on the swapout activity to SSD/ZSWAP.
>
> Other kernel configuration parameters:
>
>     ZSWAP Compressor  : LZ4, DEFLATE-IAA
>     ZSWAP Allocator   : ZSMALLOC
>     SWAP page-cluster : 2
>
> In the experiments where "deflate-iaa" is used as the ZSWAP compressor,
> IAA "compression verification" is enabled. Hence each IAA compression
> will be decompressed internally by the "iaa_crypto" driver, the crc-s
> returned by the hardware will be compared and errors reported in case of
> mismatches. Thus "deflate-iaa" helps ensure better data integrity as
> compared to the software compressors.
>
> Throughput reported by usemem and perf sys time for running the test
> are as follows, averaged across 3 runs:
>
>  64KB mTHP (cgroup memory.high set to 60G):
>  ==========================================
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------
>  |                    |                   |            |            |
>  |Kernel              | mTHP SWAP-OUT     | Throughput | Improvement|
>  |                    |                   |       KB/s |            |
>  |--------------------|-------------------|------------|------------|
>  |v6.11-rc3 mainline  | SSD               |    335,346 |   Baseline |
>  |zswap-mTHP-Store    | ZSWAP lz4         |    271,558 |       -19% |

zswap throughput is worse than ssd swap?  This doesn't look right.

>  |zswap-mTHP-Store    | ZSWAP deflate-iaa |    388,154 |        16% |
>  |------------------------------------------------------------------|
>  |                    |                   |            |            |
>  |Kernel              | mTHP SWAP-OUT     |   Sys time | Improvement|
>  |                    |                   |        sec |            |
>  |--------------------|-------------------|------------|------------|
>  |v6.11-rc3 mainline  | SSD               |      91.37 |   Baseline |
>  |zswap-mTHP=Store    | ZSWAP lz4         |     265.43 |      -191% |
>  |zswap-mTHP-Store    | ZSWAP deflate-iaa |     235.60 |      -158% |
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>   -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  | VMSTATS, mTHP ZSWAP/SSD stats|  v6.11-rc3 |  zswap-mTHP |  zswap-mTHP |
>  |                              |   mainline |       Store |       Store |
>  |                              |            |         lz4 | deflate-iaa |
>  |-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
>  | pswpin                       |          0 |           0 |           0 |
>  | pswpout                      |    174,432 |           0 |           0 |
>  | zswpin                       |        703 |         534 |         721 |
>  | zswpout                      |      1,501 |   1,491,654 |   1,398,805 |

It appears that the number of swapped pages for zswap is much larger
than that of SSD swap.  Why?  I guess this is why zswap throughput is
worse.

>  |-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
>  | thp_swpout                   |          0 |           0 |           0 |
>  | thp_swpout_fallback          |          0 |           0 |           0 |
>  | pgmajfault                   |      3,364 |       3,650 |       3,431 |
>  |-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
>  | hugepages-64kB/stats/zswpout |            |      63,200 |      63,244 |
>  |-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
>  | hugepages-64kB/stats/swpout  |     10,902 |           0 |           0 |
>   -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>

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Best Regards,
Huang, Ying