zram: writeback throttle

If there are lots of write IO with flash device, it could have a
wearout problem of storage. To overcome the problem, admin needs
to design write limitation to guarantee flash health
for entire product life.

This patch creates a new knob "writeback_limit" for zram.

writeback_limit's default value is 0 so that it doesn't limit
any writeback. If admin want to measure writeback count in a
certain period, he could know it via /sys/block/zram0/bd_stat's
3rd column.

If admin want to limit writeback as per-day 400M, he could do it
like below.

	MB_SHIFT=20
	4K_SHIFT=12
	echo $((400<<MB_SHIFT>>4K_SHIFT)) > \
		/sys/block/zram0/writeback_limit.

If admin want to allow further write again, he could do it like below

	echo 0 > /sys/block/zram0/writeback_limit

If admin want to see remaining writeback budget,

	cat /sys/block/zram0/writeback_limit

The writeback_limit count will reset whenever you reset zram (e.g., system
reboot, echo 1 > /sys/block/zramX/reset) so keeping how many of writeback
happened until you reset the zram to allocate extra writeback budget in
next setting is user's job.

[minchan@kernel.org: v4]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181203024045.153534-8-minchan@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181127055429.251614-8-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
index 906df97527a7..436c5e98e1b6 100644
--- a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
+++ b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
@@ -164,6 +164,8 @@ reset             WO    trigger device reset
 mem_used_max      WO    reset the `mem_used_max' counter (see later)
 mem_limit         WO    specifies the maximum amount of memory ZRAM can use
                         to store the compressed data
+writeback_limit   WO    specifies the maximum amount of write IO zram can
+			write out to backing device as 4KB unit
 max_comp_streams  RW    the number of possible concurrent compress operations
 comp_algorithm    RW    show and change the compression algorithm
 compact           WO    trigger memory compaction
@@ -275,6 +277,35 @@ Admin can request writeback of those idle pages at right timing via
 
 With the command, zram writeback idle pages from memory to the storage.
 
+If there are lots of write IO with flash device, potentially, it has
+flash wearout problem so that admin needs to design write limitation
+to guarantee storage health for entire product life.
+To overcome the concern, zram supports "writeback_limit".
+The "writeback_limit"'s default value is 0 so that it doesn't limit
+any writeback. If admin want to measure writeback count in a certain
+period, he could know it via /sys/block/zram0/bd_stat's 3rd column.
+
+If admin want to limit writeback as per-day 400M, he could do it
+like below.
+
+    MB_SHIFT=20
+    4K_SHIFT=12
+    echo $((400<<MB_SHIFT>>4K_SHIFT)) > \
+	    /sys/block/zram0/writeback_limit.
+
+If admin want to allow further write again, he could do it like below
+
+    echo 0 > /sys/block/zram0/writeback_limit
+
+If admin want to see remaining writeback budget since he set,
+
+    cat /sys/block/zram0/writeback_limit
+
+The writeback_limit count will reset whenever you reset zram(e.g.,
+system reboot, echo 1 > /sys/block/zramX/reset) so keeping how many of
+writeback happened until you reset the zram to allocate extra writeback
+budget in next setting is user's job.
+
 = memory tracking
 
 With CONFIG_ZRAM_MEMORY_TRACKING, user can know information of the