Patch series "Currently used jhash are slow enough and replace it allow as
to make KSM", v8.
Apeed (in kernel):
ksm: crc32c hash() 12081 MB/s
ksm: xxh64 hash() 8770 MB/s
ksm: xxh32 hash() 4529 MB/s
ksm: jhash2 hash() 1569 MB/s
Sioh Lee's testing (copy from other mail):
Test platform: openstack cloud platform (NEWTON version)
Experiment node: openstack based cloud compute node (CPU: xeon E5-2620 v3, memory 64gb)
VM: (2 VCPU, RAM 4GB, DISK 20GB) * 4
Linux kernel: 4.14 (latest version)
KSM setup - sleep_millisecs: 200ms, pages_to_scan: 200
Experiment process:
Firstly, we turn off KSM and launch 4 VMs. Then we turn on the KSM and
measure the checksum computation time until full_scans become two.
The experimental results (the experimental value is the average of the measured values)
crc32c_intel: 1084.10ns
crc32c (no hardware acceleration): 7012.51ns
xxhash32: 2227.75ns
xxhash64: 1413.16ns
jhash2: 5128.30ns
In summary, the result shows that crc32c_intel has advantages over all of
the hash function used in the experiment. (decreased by 84.54% compared
to crc32c, 78.86% compared to jhash2, 51.33% xxhash32, 23.28% compared to
xxhash64) the results are similar to those of Timofey.
But, use only xxhash for now, because for using crc32c, cryptoapi must be
initialized first - that require some tricky solution to work good in all
situations.
So:
- First patch implement compile time pickup of fastest implementation of
xxhash for target platform.
- The second patch replaces jhash2 with xxhash
This patch (of 2):
xxh32() - fast on both 32/64-bit platforms
xxh64() - fast only on 64-bit platform
Create xxhash() which will pick up the fastest version at compile time.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181023182554.23464-2-nefelim4ag@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Timofey Titovets <nefelim4ag@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pavel.tatashin@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: leesioh <solee@os.korea.ac.kr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adds xxhash kernel module with xxh32 and xxh64 hashes. xxhash is an
extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm for checksumming.
The zstd compression and decompression modules added in the next patch
require xxhash. I extracted it out from zstd since it is useful on its
own. I copied the code from the upstream XXHash source repository and
translated it into kernel style. I ran benchmarks and tests in the kernel
and tests in userland.
I benchmarked xxhash as a special character device. I ran in four modes,
no-op, xxh32, xxh64, and crc32. The no-op mode simply copies the data to
kernel space and ignores it. The xxh32, xxh64, and crc32 modes compute
hashes on the copied data. I also ran it with four different buffer sizes.
The benchmark file is located in the upstream zstd source repository under
`contrib/linux-kernel/xxhash_test.c` [1].
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. I benchmarked using the file `filesystem.squashfs`
from `ubuntu-16.10-desktop-amd64.iso`, which is 1,536,217,088 B large.
Run the following commands for the benchmark:
modprobe xxhash_test
mknod xxhash_test c 245 0
time cp filesystem.squashfs xxhash_test
The time is reported by the time of the userland `cp`.
The GB/s is computed with
1,536,217,008 B / time(buffer size, hash)
which includes the time to copy from userland.
The Normalized GB/s is computed with
1,536,217,088 B / (time(buffer size, hash) - time(buffer size, none)).
| Buffer Size (B) | Hash | Time (s) | GB/s | Adjusted GB/s |
|-----------------|-------|----------|------|---------------|
| 1024 | none | 0.408 | 3.77 | - |
| 1024 | xxh32 | 0.649 | 2.37 | 6.37 |
| 1024 | xxh64 | 0.542 | 2.83 | 11.46 |
| 1024 | crc32 | 1.290 | 1.19 | 1.74 |
| 4096 | none | 0.380 | 4.04 | - |
| 4096 | xxh32 | 0.645 | 2.38 | 5.79 |
| 4096 | xxh64 | 0.500 | 3.07 | 12.80 |
| 4096 | crc32 | 1.168 | 1.32 | 1.95 |
| 8192 | none | 0.351 | 4.38 | - |
| 8192 | xxh32 | 0.614 | 2.50 | 5.84 |
| 8192 | xxh64 | 0.464 | 3.31 | 13.60 |
| 8192 | crc32 | 1.163 | 1.32 | 1.89 |
| 16384 | none | 0.346 | 4.43 | - |
| 16384 | xxh32 | 0.590 | 2.60 | 6.30 |
| 16384 | xxh64 | 0.466 | 3.30 | 12.80 |
| 16384 | crc32 | 1.183 | 1.30 | 1.84 |
Tested in userland using the test-suite in the zstd repo under
`contrib/linux-kernel/test/XXHashUserlandTest.cpp` [2] by mocking the
kernel functions. A line in each branch of every function in `xxhash.c`
was commented out to ensure that the test-suite fails. Additionally
tested while testing zstd and with SMHasher [3].
[1] https://phabricator.intern.facebook.com/P57526246
[2] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/contrib/linux-kernel/test/XXHashUserlandTest.cpp
[3] https://github.com/aappleby/smhasher
zstd source repository: https://github.com/facebook/zstd
XXHash source repository: https://github.com/cyan4973/xxhash
Signed-off-by: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Timofey Titovets
Nick Terrell