On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 02:19:24PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> Crypto subsystem now supports decompress_noctx API that requires
> special tfm_noctx. This tfm can be shared by multiple concurrent
> decompress user because this API doesn't rely on this tfm object
> except to fetch decompress function pointer.
>
> Until changing to use crypto API, zram doesn't require any zstrm
> on decompress so decompress is parallelized unlimitedly. But, previous
> patch make zram to use crypto API and this requires one zstrm on every
> decompress users so, in some zstrm contended situations, zram's
> performance would be degraded.
>
> This patch makes zram use decompress_noctx API and restore zram's
> performance as the time that zram doesn't use crypto API.
>
> Following is zram's read performance number.
>
> * iozone -t 4 -R -r 16K -s 60M -I +Z -i 0 -i 1
> * max_stream is set to 1
> * Output is in Kbytes/sec
>
> zram-base vs zram-crypto vs zram-crypto-noctx
>
> Read 10411701.88 6426911.62 9423894.38
> Re-read 10017386.62 6428218.88 11000063.50
>
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo....@lge.com>
> ---
> drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
> drivers/block/zram/zcomp.h | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
> index c2ed7c8..a020200 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
> @@ -319,9 +319,12 @@ void zcomp_compress_end(struct zcomp *comp, struct
> zcomp_strm *zstrm)
> zcomp_strm_release(comp, zstrm);
> }
>
> -/* Never return NULL, may sleep */
> +/* May return NULL, may sleep */
> struct zcomp_strm *zcomp_decompress_begin(struct zcomp *comp)
> {
> + if (comp->tfm_noctx)
> + return NULL;
Hmm,, I understand why returns NULL but it seems to be awkward to use NULL
to express meaningful semantic and following functions relies on.
If I have a time, I will think over.
> +
> return zcomp_strm_find(comp);
> }
>
> @@ -346,11 +349,18 @@ int zcomp_decompress(struct zcomp *comp, struct
> zcomp_strm *zstrm,
> {
> unsigned int size = PAGE_SIZE;
>
> + if (!zstrm) {
> + return crypto_comp_decompress_noctx(comp->tfm_noctx,
> + src, src_len, dst, &size);
> + }
> +
> return crypto_comp_decompress(zstrm->tfm, src, src_len, dst, &size);
> }
>
> void zcomp_destroy(struct zcomp *comp)
> {
> + if (comp->tfm_noctx)
> + crypto_free_comp_noctx(comp->tfm_noctx);
> comp->destroy(comp);
> kfree(comp);
> }
> @@ -366,6 +376,7 @@ struct zcomp *zcomp_create(const char *compress, int
> max_strm)
> {
> struct zcomp *comp;
> const char *backend;
> + struct crypto_comp *tfm;
>
> backend = find_backend(compress);
> if (!backend)
> @@ -384,5 +395,16 @@ struct zcomp *zcomp_create(const char *compress, int
> max_strm)
> kfree(comp);
> return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> }
> +
> + /*
> + * Prepare to use crypto decompress_noctx API. One tfm is required
> + * to initialize crypto algorithm properly and fetch corresponding
> + * function pointer. But, it is sharable for multiple concurrent
> + * decompress users.
> + */
Please comment out that this API will return NULL if the compressor doesn't
support noctx mode.
Thanks.
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