linux-toradex.git/fs/squashfs/Kconfig, branch v6.7

squashfs: allows users to configure the number of decompression threads

2022-11-18T21:55:08+00:00

The maximum number of threads in the decompressor_multi.c file is fixed
and cannot be adjusted according to user needs.  Therefore, the mount
parameter needs to be added to allow users to configure the number of
threads as required.  The upper limit is num_online_cpus() * 2.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221019030930.130456-3-nixiaoming@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni 
Reviewed-by: Phillip Lougher 
Cc: Jianguo Chen 
Cc: Jubin Zhong 
Cc: Zhang Yi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

squashfs: add the mount parameter theads=

2022-11-18T21:55:08+00:00

Patch series 'squashfs: Add the mount parameter "threads="'.

Currently, Squashfs supports multiple decompressor parallel modes. 
However, this mode can be configured only during kernel building and does
not support flexible selection during runtime.

In the current patch set, the mount parameter "threads=" is added to allow
users to select the parallel decompressor mode and configure the number of
decompressors when mounting a file system.

"threads="
The upper limit is num_online_cpus() * 2.


This patch (of 2):

Squashfs supports three decompression concurrency modes:
	Single-thread mode: concurrent reads are blocked and the memory
		overhead is small.
	Multi-thread mode/percpu mode: reduces concurrent read blocking but
		increases memory overhead.

The corresponding schema must be fixed at compile time. During mounting,
the concurrent decompression mode cannot be adjusted based on file read
blocking.

The mount parameter theads= is added to select
the concurrent decompression mode of a single SquashFS file system
image.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221019030930.130456-1-nixiaoming@huawei.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221019030930.130456-2-nixiaoming@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni 
Reviewed-by: Phillip Lougher 
Cc: Jianguo Chen 
Cc: Jubin Zhong 
Cc: Zhang Yi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig

2019-05-21T08:50:46+00:00

Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

squashfs: Add zstd support

2017-09-09T02:33:25+00:00

Add zstd compression and decompression support to SquashFS. zstd is a
great fit for SquashFS because it can compress at ratios approaching xz,
while decompressing twice as fast as zlib. For SquashFS in particular,
it can decompress as fast as lzo and lz4. It also has the flexibility
to turn down the compression ratio for faster compression times.

The compression benchmark is run on the file tree from the SquashFS archive
found in ubuntu-16.10-desktop-amd64.iso [1]. It uses `mksquashfs` with the
default block size (128 KB) and and various compression algorithms/levels.
xz and zstd are also benchmarked with 256 KB blocks. The decompression
benchmark times how long it takes to `tar` the file tree into `/dev/null`.
See the benchmark file in the upstream zstd source repository located under
`contrib/linux-kernel/squashfs-benchmark.sh` [2] for details.

I ran the benchmarks on a Ubuntu 14.04 VM with 2 cores and 4 GiB of RAM.
The VM is running on a MacBook Pro with a 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7 processor,
16 GB of RAM, and a SSD.

| Method         | Ratio | Compression MB/s | Decompression MB/s |
|----------------|-------|------------------|--------------------|
| gzip           |  2.92 |               15 |                128 |
| lzo            |  2.64 |              9.5 |                217 |
| lz4            |  2.12 |               94 |                218 |
| xz             |  3.43 |              5.5 |                 35 |
| xz 256 KB      |  3.53 |              5.4 |                 40 |
| zstd 1         |  2.71 |               96 |                210 |
| zstd 5         |  2.93 |               69 |                198 |
| zstd 10        |  3.01 |               41 |                225 |
| zstd 15        |  3.13 |             11.4 |                224 |
| zstd 16 256 KB |  3.24 |              8.1 |                210 |

This patch was written by Sean Purcell , but I will be
taking over the submission process.

[1] http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.10/
[2] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/contrib/linux-kernel/squashfs-benchmark.sh

zstd source repository: https://github.com/facebook/zstd

Signed-off-by: Sean Purcell 
Signed-off-by: Nick Terrell 
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason 
Acked-by: Phillip Lougher

Squashfs: Add LZ4 compression configuration option

2014-11-27T18:48:44+00:00

Add the glue code, and also update the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher

Squashfs: Directly decompress into the page cache for file data

2013-11-20T03:59:13+00:00

This introduces an implementation of squashfs_readpage_block()
that directly decompresses into the page cache.

This uses the previously added page handler abstraction to push
down the necessary kmap_atomic/kunmap_atomic operations on the
page cache buffers into the decompressors.  This enables
direct copying into the page cache without using the slow
kmap/kunmap calls.

The code detects when multiple threads are racing in
squashfs_readpage() to decompress the same block, and avoids
this regression by falling back to using an intermediate
buffer.

This patch enhances the performance of Squashfs significantly
when multiple processes are accessing the filesystem simultaneously
because it not only reduces memcopying, but it more importantly
eliminates the lock contention on the intermediate buffer.

Using single-thread decompression.

        dd if=file1 of=/dev/null bs=4096 &
        dd if=file2 of=/dev/null bs=4096 &
        dd if=file3 of=/dev/null bs=4096 &
        dd if=file4 of=/dev/null bs=4096

Before:

629145600 bytes (629 MB) copied, 45.8046 s, 13.7 MB/s

After:

629145600 bytes (629 MB) copied, 9.29414 s, 67.7 MB/s

Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher 
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim

Squashfs: add multi-threaded decompression using percpu variable

2013-11-20T03:58:03+00:00

Add a multi-threaded decompression implementation which uses
percpu variables.

Using percpu variables has advantages and disadvantages over
implementations which do not use percpu variables.

Advantages:
  * the nature of percpu variables ensures decompression is
    load-balanced across the multiple cores.
  * simplicity.

Disadvantages: it limits decompression to one thread per core.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher

squashfs: Enhance parallel I/O

2013-11-20T03:35:18+00:00

Now squashfs have used for only one stream buffer for decompression
so it hurts parallel read performance so this patch supports
multiple decompressor to enhance performance parallel I/O.

Four 1G file dd read on KVM machine which has 2 CPU and 4G memory.

dd if=test/test1.dat of=/dev/null &
dd if=test/test2.dat of=/dev/null &
dd if=test/test3.dat of=/dev/null &
dd if=test/test4.dat of=/dev/null &

old : 1m39s -> new : 9s

* From v1
  * Change comp_strm with decomp_strm - Phillip
  * Change/add comments - Phillip

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim 
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-next

2011-11-04T23:48:37+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-next:
  Squashfs: Add an option to set dev block size to 4K

Squashfs: Add an option to set dev block size to 4K

2011-11-02T17:25:50+00:00

This commit adds an option to set the device block size used to 4K.

By default Squashfs sets the device block size (sb_min_blocksize) to 1K
or the smallest block size supported by the block device (if larger).
This, because blocks are packed together and unaligned in Squashfs,
should reduce latency.

This, however, gives poor performance on MTD NAND devices where
the optimal I/O size is 4K (even though the devices can support
smaller block sizes).

Using a 4K device block size may also improve overall I/O
performance for some file access patterns (e.g. sequential
accesses of files in filesystem order) on all media.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher