Re: [RFC PATCH v1 2/4] mm: vmstat: Per mTHP-size zswap_store vmstat event counters.

[Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 6:28 PM Kanchana P Sridhar
<kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com> wrote:
>
> Added vmstat event counters per mTHP-size that can be used to account
> for folios of different sizes being successfully stored in ZSWAP.
>
> For this RFC, it is not clear if these zswpout counters should instead
> be added as part of the existing mTHP stats in
> /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-*kB/stats.
>
> The following is also a viable option, should it make better sense,
> for instance, as:
>
> /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-*kB/stats/zswpout.
>
> If so, we would be able to distinguish between mTHP zswap and
> non-zswap swapouts through:
>
> /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-*kB/stats/zswpout
>
> and
>
> /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-*kB/stats/swpout
>
> respectively.
>
> Comments would be appreciated as to which approach is preferable.

Even though swapout might go through zswap, from the perspective of
the mm core, it shouldn't be aware of that. Shouldn't zswpout be part
of swpout? Why are they separate? no matter if a mTHP has been
put in zswap, it has been swapped-out to mm-core? No?


>
> Signed-off-by: Kanchana P Sridhar <kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/vm_event_item.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  mm/vmstat.c                   | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 30 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
> index 747943bc8cc2..2451bcfcf05c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
> +++ b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
> @@ -114,6 +114,9 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PSWPIN, PSWPOUT,
>                 THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC,
>                 THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC_FAILED,
>                 THP_SWPOUT,
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ZSWAP
> +               ZSWPOUT_PMD_THP_FOLIO,
> +#endif
>                 THP_SWPOUT_FALLBACK,
>  #endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_BALLOON
> @@ -143,6 +146,18 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PSWPIN, PSWPOUT,
>                 ZSWPIN,
>                 ZSWPOUT,
>                 ZSWPWB,
> +               ZSWPOUT_4KB_FOLIO,
> +#ifdef CONFIG_THP_SWAP
> +               mTHP_ZSWPOUT_8kB,
> +               mTHP_ZSWPOUT_16kB,
> +               mTHP_ZSWPOUT_32kB,
> +               mTHP_ZSWPOUT_64kB,
> +               mTHP_ZSWPOUT_128kB,
> +               mTHP_ZSWPOUT_256kB,
> +               mTHP_ZSWPOUT_512kB,
> +               mTHP_ZSWPOUT_1024kB,
> +               mTHP_ZSWPOUT_2048kB,
> +#endif

This implementation hardcodes assumptions about the page size being 4KB,
but page sizes can vary, and so can the THP orders?

>  #endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86
>                 DIRECT_MAP_LEVEL2_SPLIT,
> diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
> index 8507c497218b..0e66c8b0c486 100644
> --- a/mm/vmstat.c
> +++ b/mm/vmstat.c
> @@ -1375,6 +1375,9 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
>         "thp_zero_page_alloc",
>         "thp_zero_page_alloc_failed",
>         "thp_swpout",
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ZSWAP
> +       "zswpout_pmd_thp_folio",
> +#endif
>         "thp_swpout_fallback",
>  #endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_BALLOON
> @@ -1405,6 +1408,18 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
>         "zswpin",
>         "zswpout",
>         "zswpwb",
> +       "zswpout_4kb_folio",
> +#ifdef CONFIG_THP_SWAP
> +       "mthp_zswpout_8kb",
> +       "mthp_zswpout_16kb",
> +       "mthp_zswpout_32kb",
> +       "mthp_zswpout_64kb",
> +       "mthp_zswpout_128kb",
> +       "mthp_zswpout_256kb",
> +       "mthp_zswpout_512kb",
> +       "mthp_zswpout_1024kb",
> +       "mthp_zswpout_2048kb",
> +#endif

The issue here is that the number of THP orders
can vary across different platforms.

>  #endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86
>         "direct_map_level2_splits",
> --
> 2.27.0
>

Thanks
Barry