swapfile: swap allocation cycle if nonrot

Though attempting to find free clusters (Andrea), swap allocation has
always restarted its searches from the beginning of the swap area (sct),
to reduce seek times between swap pages, by not scattering them all over
the partition.

But on a solidstate swap device, seeks are cheap, and block remapping to
level the wear may be limited by zones: in that case it's better to cycle
around the whole partition.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Donjun Shin <djshin90@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <teheo@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 46 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index b0f5660..7632107 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ static int wait_for_discard(void *word)
 static inline unsigned long scan_swap_map(struct swap_info_struct *si)
 {
 	unsigned long offset;
+	unsigned long scan_base;
 	unsigned long last_in_cluster = 0;
 	int latency_ration = LATENCY_LIMIT;
 	int found_free_cluster = 0;
@@ -181,10 +182,11 @@ static inline unsigned long scan_swap_map(struct swap_info_struct *si)
 	 * all over the entire swap partition, so that we reduce
 	 * overall disk seek times between swap pages.  -- sct
 	 * But we do now try to find an empty cluster.  -Andrea
+	 * And we let swap pages go all over an SSD partition.  Hugh
 	 */
 
 	si->flags += SWP_SCANNING;
-	offset = si->cluster_next;
+	scan_base = offset = si->cluster_next;
 
 	if (unlikely(!si->cluster_nr--)) {
 		if (si->pages - si->inuse_pages < SWAPFILE_CLUSTER) {
@@ -206,7 +208,16 @@ static inline unsigned long scan_swap_map(struct swap_info_struct *si)
 		}
 		spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
 
-		offset = si->lowest_bit;
+		/*
+		 * If seek is expensive, start searching for new cluster from
+		 * start of partition, to minimize the span of allocated swap.
+		 * But if seek is cheap, search from our current position, so
+		 * that swap is allocated from all over the partition: if the
+		 * Flash Translation Layer only remaps within limited zones,
+		 * we don't want to wear out the first zone too quickly.
+		 */
+		if (!(si->flags & SWP_SOLIDSTATE))
+			scan_base = offset = si->lowest_bit;
 		last_in_cluster = offset + SWAPFILE_CLUSTER - 1;
 
 		/* Locate the first empty (unaligned) cluster */
@@ -228,6 +239,27 @@ static inline unsigned long scan_swap_map(struct swap_info_struct *si)
 		}
 
 		offset = si->lowest_bit;
+		last_in_cluster = offset + SWAPFILE_CLUSTER - 1;
+
+		/* Locate the first empty (unaligned) cluster */
+		for (; last_in_cluster < scan_base; offset++) {
+			if (si->swap_map[offset])
+				last_in_cluster = offset + SWAPFILE_CLUSTER;
+			else if (offset == last_in_cluster) {
+				spin_lock(&swap_lock);
+				offset -= SWAPFILE_CLUSTER - 1;
+				si->cluster_next = offset;
+				si->cluster_nr = SWAPFILE_CLUSTER - 1;
+				found_free_cluster = 1;
+				goto checks;
+			}
+			if (unlikely(--latency_ration < 0)) {
+				cond_resched();
+				latency_ration = LATENCY_LIMIT;
+			}
+		}
+
+		offset = scan_base;
 		spin_lock(&swap_lock);
 		si->cluster_nr = SWAPFILE_CLUSTER - 1;
 		si->lowest_alloc = 0;
@@ -239,7 +271,7 @@ checks:
 	if (!si->highest_bit)
 		goto no_page;
 	if (offset > si->highest_bit)
-		offset = si->lowest_bit;
+		scan_base = offset = si->lowest_bit;
 	if (si->swap_map[offset])
 		goto scan;
 
@@ -323,8 +355,18 @@ scan:
 			latency_ration = LATENCY_LIMIT;
 		}
 	}
+	offset = si->lowest_bit;
+	while (++offset < scan_base) {
+		if (!si->swap_map[offset]) {
+			spin_lock(&swap_lock);
+			goto checks;
+		}
+		if (unlikely(--latency_ration < 0)) {
+			cond_resched();
+			latency_ration = LATENCY_LIMIT;
+		}
+	}
 	spin_lock(&swap_lock);
-	goto checks;
 
 no_page:
 	si->flags -= SWP_SCANNING;