f2fs: give an option to enable in-place-updates during fsync to users

If user wrote F2FS_IPU_FSYNC:4 in /sys/fs/f2fs/ipu_policy, f2fs_sync_file
only starts to try in-place-updates.
And, if the number of dirty pages is over /sys/fs/f2fs/min_fsync_blocks, it
keeps out-of-order manner. Otherwise, it triggers in-place-updates.

This may be used by storage showing very high random write performance.

For example, it can be used when,

Seq. writes (Data) + wait + Seq. writes (Node)

is pretty much slower than,

Rand. writes (Data)

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
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Jaegeuk Kim
2014-09-10 16:53:02 -07:00
parent a7ffdbe22c
commit c1ce1b02bb
7 changed files with 33 additions and 10 deletions
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@@ -386,6 +386,7 @@ struct f2fs_sm_info {
unsigned int ipu_policy; /* in-place-update policy */
unsigned int min_ipu_util; /* in-place-update threshold */
unsigned int min_fsync_blocks; /* threshold for fsync */
/* for flush command control */
struct flush_cmd_control *cmd_control_info;