swap can do cluster discard for SSD, which is good, but there are some
problems here:
1. swap do the discard just before page reclaim gets a swap entry and
writes the disk sectors. This is useless for high end SSD, because an
overwrite to a sector implies a discard to original sector too. A
discard + overwrite == overwrite.
2. the purpose of doing discard is to improve SSD firmware garbage
collection. Idealy we should send discard as early as possible, so
firmware can do something smart. Sending discard just after swap entry
is freed is considered early compared to sending discard before write.
Of course, if workload is already bound to gc speed, sending discard
earlier or later doesn't make
3. block discard is a sync API, which will delay scan_swap_map()
significantly.
4. Write and discard command can be executed parallel in PCIe SSD.
Making swap discard async can make execution more efficiently.
This patch makes swap discard async and moves discard to where swap entry
is freed. Discard and write have no dependence now, so above issues can
be avoided. Idealy we should do discard for any freed sectors, but some
SSD discard is very slow. This patch still does discard for a whole
cluster.
My test does a several round of 'mmap, write, unmap', which will trigger a
lot of swap discard. In a fusionio card, with this patch, the test
runtime is reduced to 18% of the time without it, so around 5.5x faster.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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