mm, swap: remove swap slot cache
authorKairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 16:59:34 +0000 (00:59 +0800)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 17 Mar 2025 05:06:43 +0000 (22:06 -0700)
commit0ff67f990bd45726e0d9e91111d998e7a3595b32
tree8f61ff41e506159e7701ad77d6981e3b4ea2956c
parent1b7e90020eb770aa52991a34f21552b4c38ea690
mm, swap: remove swap slot cache

Slot cache is no longer needed now, removing it and all related code.

- vm-scalability with: `usemem --init-time -O -y -x -R -31 1G`,
12G memory cgroup using simulated pmem as SWAP (32G pmem, 32 CPUs),
16 test runs for each case, measuring the total throughput:

                      Before (KB/s) (stdev)  After (KB/s) (stdev)
Random (4K):          424907.60 (24410.78)   414745.92  (34554.78)
Random (64K):         163308.82 (11635.72)   167314.50  (18434.99)
Sequential (4K, !-R): 6150056.79 (103205.90) 6321469.06 (115878.16)

The performance changes are below noise level.

- Build linux kernel with make -j96, using 4K folio with 1.5G memory
cgroup limit and 64K folio with 2G memory cgroup limit, on top of tmpfs,
12 test runs, measuring the system time:

                  Before (s) (stdev)  After (s) (stdev)
make -j96 (4K):   6445.69 (61.95)     6408.80 (69.46)
make -j96 (64K):  6841.71 (409.04)    6437.99 (435.55)

Similar to above, 64k mTHP case showed a slight improvement.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250313165935.63303-7-ryncsn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/swap.h
include/linux/swap_slots.h [deleted file]
mm/Makefile
mm/swap_slots.c [deleted file]
mm/swap_state.c
mm/swapfile.c