This patch introduces new sysfs entries for users to control the policy of
in-place-updates, namely IPU, in f2fs.
Sometimes f2fs suffers from performance degradation due to its out-of-place
update policy that produces many additional node block writes.
If the storage performance is very dependant on the amount of data writes
instead of IO patterns, we'd better drop this out-of-place update policy.
This patch suggests 5 polcies and their triggering conditions as follows.
[sysfs entry name = ipu_policy]
0: F2FS_IPU_FORCE all the time,
1: F2FS_IPU_SSR if SSR mode is activated,
2: F2FS_IPU_UTIL if FS utilization is over threashold,
3: F2FS_IPU_SSR_UTIL if SSR mode is activated and FS utilization is over
threashold,
4: F2FS_IPU_DISABLE disable IPU. (=default option)
[sysfs entry name = min_ipu_util]
This parameter controls the threshold to trigger in-place-updates.
The number indicates percentage of the filesystem utilization, and used by
F2FS_IPU_UTIL and F2FS_IPU_SSR_UTIL policies.
For more details, see need_inplace_update() in segment.h.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch introduces f2fs_io_info to mitigate the complex parameter list.
struct f2fs_io_info {
enum page_type type; /* contains DATA/NODE/META/META_FLUSH */
int rw; /* contains R/RS/W/WS */
int rw_flag; /* contains REQ_META/REQ_PRIO */
}
1. f2fs_write_data_pages
- DATA
- WRITE_SYNC is set when wbc->WB_SYNC_ALL.
2. sync_node_pages
- NODE
- WRITE_SYNC all the time
3. sync_meta_pages
- META
- WRITE_SYNC all the time
- REQ_META | REQ_PRIO all the time
** f2fs_submit_merged_bio() handles META_FLUSH.
4. ra_nat_pages, ra_sit_pages, ra_sum_pages
- META
- READ_SYNC
Cc: Fan Li <fanofcode.li@samsung.com>
Cc: Changman Lee <cm224.lee@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Previously f2fs submits most of write requests using WRITE_SYNC, but f2fs_write_data_pages
submits last write requests by sync_mode flags callers pass.
This causes a performance problem since continuous pages with different sync flags
can't be merged in cfq IO scheduler(thanks yu chao for pointing it out), and synchronous
requests often take more time.
This patch makes the following modifies to DATA writebacks:
1. every page will be written back using the sync mode caller pass.
2. only pages with the same sync mode can be merged in one bio request.
These changes are restricted to DATA pages.Other types of writebacks are modified
To remain synchronous.
In my test with tiotest, f2fs sequence write performance is improved by about 7%-10% ,
and this patch has no obvious impact on other performance tests.
Signed-off-by: Fan Li <fanofcode.li@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
As we know, some of our branch condition will rarely be true. So we could add
'unlikely' to let compiler optimize these code, by this way we could drop
unneeded 'jump' assemble code to improve performance.
change log:
o add *unlikely* as many as possible across the whole source files at once
suggested by Jaegeuk Kim.
Suggested-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch integrates redundant bio operations on read and write IOs.
1. Move bio-related codes to the top of data.c.
2. Replace f2fs_submit_bio with f2fs_submit_merged_bio, which handles read
bios additionally.
3. Introduce __submit_merged_bio to submit the merged bio.
4. Change f2fs_readpage to f2fs_submit_page_bio.
5. Introduce f2fs_submit_page_mbio to integrate previous submit_read_page and
submit_write_page.
Reviewed-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com >
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
The recover_orphan_inodes() returns no error all the time, so we don't need to
check its errors.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: add description]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch removes the unnecessary condition checks on:
fs/f2fs/gc.c:667 do_garbage_collect() warn: 'sum_page' isn't an ERR_PTR
fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:795 f2fs_put_page() warn: 'page' isn't an ERR_PTR
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Add new inode flags F2FS_INLINE_DATA and FI_INLINE_DATA to indicate
whether the inode has inline data.
Inline data makes use of inode block's data indices region to save small
file. Currently there are 923 data indices in an inode block. Since
inline xattr has made use of the last 50 indices to save its data, there
are 873 indices left which can be used for inline data. When
FI_INLINE_DATA is set, the layout of inode block's indices region is
like below:
+-----------------+
| | Reserved. reserve_new_block() will make use of
| i_addr[0] | i_addr[0] when we need to reserve a new data block
| | to convert inline data into regular one's.
|-----------------|
| | Used by inline data. A file whose size is less than
| i_addr[1~872] | 3488 bytes(~3.4k) and doesn't reserve extra
| | blocks by fallocate() can be saved here.
|-----------------|
| |
| i_addr[873~922] | Reserved for inline xattr
| |
+-----------------+
Signed-off-by: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Huajun Li <huajun.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Weihong Xu <weihong.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
For better read performance, we add a new function to support for merging
contiguous read as the one for write.
v1-->v2:
o add declarations here as Gu Zheng suggested.
o use new structure f2fs_bio_info introduced by Jaegeuk Kim.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
The f2fs has three bio types, NODE, DATA, and META, and manages some data
structures per each bio types.
The codes are a little bit messy, thus, this patch introduces a bio array
which groups individual data structures as follows.
struct f2fs_bio_info {
struct bio *bio; /* bios to merge */
sector_t last_block_in_bio; /* last block number */
struct mutex io_mutex; /* mutex for bio */
};
struct f2fs_sb_info {
...
struct f2fs_bio_info write_io[NR_PAGE_TYPE]; /* for write bios */
...
};
The code changes from this new data structure are trivial.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
The f2fs manages an extent cache to search a number of consecutive data blocks
very quickly.
However it conducts unnecessary cache operations if the file is highly
fragmented with no valid extent cache.
In such the case, we don't need to handle the extent cache, but just can disable
the cache facility.
Nevertheless, this patch gives one more chance to enable the extent cache.
For example,
1. create a file
2. write data sequentially which produces a large valid extent cache
3. update some data, resulting in a fragmented extent
4. if the fragmented extent is too small, then drop extent cache
5. close the file
6. open the file again
7. give another chance to make a new extent cache
8. write data sequentially again which creates another big extent cache.
...
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch removes an unnecessary semaphore (i.e., sbi->bio_sem).
There is no reason to use the semaphore when f2fs submits read and write IOs.
Instead, let's use a write mutex and cover the sbi->bio[] by the lock.
Change log from v1:
o split write_mutex suggested by Chao Yu
Chao described,
"All DATA/NODE/META bio buffers in superblock is protected by
'sbi->write_mutex', but each bio buffer area is independent, So we
should split write_mutex to three for DATA/NODE/META."
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch adds a slab cache entry for small discards.
Each entry consists of:
struct discard_entry {
struct list_head list; /* list head */
block_t blkaddr; /* block address to be discarded */
int len; /* # of consecutive blocks of the discard */
};
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
use genernal method supported by kernel
o changes from v1
If any waiter exists at end io, wake up it.
Signed-off-by: Changman Lee <cm224.lee@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Previously, f2fs_sync_file() waits for all the node blocks to be written.
But, we don't need to do that, but wait only the inode-related node blocks.
This patch adds wait_on_node_pages_writeback() in which waits inode-related
node blocks that are on writeback.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
If you want to remove unnecessary BUG_ONs, you can just turn off F2FS_CHECK_FS
in your kernel config.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Previously, f2fs postpones reclaiming prefree segments into free segments
as much as possible.
However, if user writes and deletes a bunch of data without any sync or fsync
calls, some flash storages can suffer from garbage collections.
So, this patch adds the reclaiming codes to f2fs_write_node_pages and background
GC thread.
If there are a lot of prefree segments, let's do checkpoint so that f2fs
submits discard commands for the prefree regions to the flash storage.
Signed-off-by: Changman Lee <cm224.lee@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Jaegeuk Kim
Fan Li
Chao Yu
Huajun Li
Gu Zheng
Changman Lee