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Mauro Carvalho Chehab 54a19b4d3f docs: ABI: cleanup several ABI documents
There are some ABI documents that, while they don't generate
any warnings, they have issues when parsed by get_abi.pl script
on its output result.

Address them, in order to provide a clean output.

Reviewed-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com> # for fpga-manager
Reviewed-By: Kajol Jain<kjain@linux.ibm.com> # for sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_gpci and sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> #for IIO
Acked-by: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> # for Habanalabs
Acked-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> # for sysfs-bus-papr-pmem
Acked-by: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com> # for catpt
Acked-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Acked-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> # for rbd
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5bc78e5b68ed1e9e39135173857cb2e753be868f.1604042072.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-10-30 13:14:29 +01:00
Chao Yu 093749e296 f2fs: support age threshold based garbage collection
There are several issues in current background GC algorithm:
- valid blocks is one of key factors during cost overhead calculation,
so if segment has less valid block, however even its age is young or
it locates hot segment, CB algorithm will still choose the segment as
victim, it's not appropriate.
- GCed data/node will go to existing logs, no matter in-there datas'
update frequency is the same or not, it may mix hot and cold data
again.
- GC alloctor mainly use LFS type segment, it will cost free segment
more quickly.

This patch introduces a new algorithm named age threshold based
garbage collection to solve above issues, there are three steps
mainly:

1. select a source victim:
- set an age threshold, and select candidates beased threshold:
e.g.
 0 means youngest, 100 means oldest, if we set age threshold to 80
 then select dirty segments which has age in range of [80, 100] as
 candiddates;
- set candidate_ratio threshold, and select candidates based the
ratio, so that we can shrink candidates to those oldest segments;
- select target segment with fewest valid blocks in order to
migrate blocks with minimum cost;

2. select a target victim:
- select candidates beased age threshold;
- set candidate_radius threshold, search candidates whose age is
around source victims, searching radius should less than the
radius threshold.
- select target segment with most valid blocks in order to avoid
migrating current target segment.

3. merge valid blocks from source victim into target victim with
SSR alloctor.

Test steps:
- create 160 dirty segments:
 * half of them have 128 valid blocks per segment
 * left of them have 384 valid blocks per segment
- run background GC

Benefit: GC count and block movement count both decrease obviously:

- Before:
  - Valid: 86
  - Dirty: 1
  - Prefree: 11
  - Free: 6001 (6001)

GC calls: 162 (BG: 220)
  - data segments : 160 (160)
  - node segments : 2 (2)
Try to move 41454 blocks (BG: 41454)
  - data blocks : 40960 (40960)
  - node blocks : 494 (494)

IPU: 0 blocks
SSR: 0 blocks in 0 segments
LFS: 41364 blocks in 81 segments

- After:

  - Valid: 87
  - Dirty: 0
  - Prefree: 4
  - Free: 6008 (6008)

GC calls: 75 (BG: 76)
  - data segments : 74 (74)
  - node segments : 1 (1)
Try to move 12813 blocks (BG: 12813)
  - data blocks : 12544 (12544)
  - node blocks : 269 (269)

IPU: 0 blocks
SSR: 12032 blocks in 77 segments
LFS: 855 blocks in 2 segments

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: fix a bug along with pinfile in-mem segment & clean up]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2020-09-11 11:11:15 -07:00
Daeho Jeong 0e5e81114d f2fs: add GC_URGENT_LOW mode in gc_urgent
Added a new gc_urgent mode, GC_URGENT_LOW, in which mode
F2FS will lower the bar of checking idle in order to
process outstanding discard commands and GC a little bit
aggressively.

Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2020-07-07 21:51:49 -07:00
Jaegeuk Kim 32b6aba85c f2fs: add node_io_flag for bio flags likewise data_io_flag
This patch adds another way to attach bio flags to node writes.

Description:   Give a way to attach REQ_META|FUA to node writes
               given temperature-based bits. Now the bits indicate:
               *      REQ_META     |      REQ_FUA      |
               *    5 |    4 |   3 |    2 |    1 |   0 |
               * Cold | Warm | Hot | Cold | Warm | Hot |

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2020-06-08 20:37:54 -07:00
Daeho Jeong 2bc4bea338 f2fs: add tracepoint for f2fs iostat
Added a tracepoint to see iostat of f2fs. Default period of that
is 3 second. This tracepoint can be used to be monitoring
I/O statistics periodically.

Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2020-04-17 09:16:57 -07:00
Jaegeuk Kim da9953b729 f2fs: introduce sysfs/data_io_flag to attach REQ_META/FUA
This patch introduces a way to attach REQ_META/FUA explicitly
to all the data writes given temperature.

-> attach REQ_FUA to Hot Data writes

-> attach REQ_FUA to Hot|Warm Data writes

-> attach REQ_FUA to Hot|Warm|Cold Data writes

-> attach REQ_FUA to Hot|Warm|Cold Data writes as well as
          REQ_META to Hot Data writes

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2020-04-16 14:41:52 -07:00
Jaegeuk Kim a7e679b533 f2fs: show mounted time
Let's show mounted time.

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2020-03-19 11:41:25 -07:00
Hridya Valsaraju fc7100ea2a f2fs: Add f2fs stats to sysfs
Currently f2fs stats are only available from /d/f2fs/status. This patch
adds some of the f2fs stats to sysfs so that they are accessible even
when debugfs is not mounted.

The following sysfs nodes are added:
-/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/free_segments
-/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/cp_foreground_calls
-/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/cp_background_calls
-/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_foreground_calls
-/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_background_calls
-/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/moved_blocks_foreground
-/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/moved_blocks_background
-/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/avg_vblocks

Signed-off-by: Hridya Valsaraju <hridya@google.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: allow STAT_FS without DEBUG_FS]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2020-01-23 09:24:25 -08:00
Hridya Valsaraju f5fa7c8bb6 f2fs: delete duplicate information on sysfs nodes
This patch merges the sysfs node documentation present in
Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt and
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs
and deletes the duplicate information from
Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt. This is to prevent having to update
both files when a new sysfs node is added for f2fs.
The patch also makes minor formatting changes to
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs.

Signed-off-by: Hridya Valsaraju <hridya@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2020-01-22 17:14:14 -08:00
Jaegeuk Kim a4db59ac90 f2fs: expose main_blkaddr in sysfs
Expose in /sys/fs/f2fs/<blockdev>/main_blkaddr the block address where the
main area starts. This allows user mode programs to determine:

- That pinned files that are made exclusively of fully allocated 2MB
  segments will never be unpinned by the file system.

- Where the main area starts. This is required by programs that want to
  verify if a file is made exclusively of 2MB f2fs segments, the alignment
  boundary for segments starts at this address. Testing for 2MB alignment
  relative to the start of the device is incorrect, because for some
  filesystems main_blkaddr is not at a 2MB boundary relative to the start
  of the device.

The entry will be used when validating reliable pinning file feature proposed
by "f2fs: support aligned pinned file".

Signed-off-by: Ramon Pantin <pantin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2019-11-25 10:01:27 -08:00
Daniel Rosenberg 5aba54302a f2fs: include charset encoding information in the superblock
Add charset encoding to f2fs to support casefolding. It is modeled after
the same feature introduced in commit c83ad55eaa ("ext4: include charset
encoding information in the superblock")

Currently this is not compatible with encryption, similar to the current
ext4 imlpementation. This will change in the future.

>From the ext4 patch:
"""
The s_encoding field stores a magic number indicating the encoding
format and version used globally by file and directory names in the
filesystem.  The s_encoding_flags defines policies for using the charset
encoding, like how to handle invalid sequences.  The magic number is
mapped to the exact charset table, but the mapping is specific to ext4.
Since we don't have any commitment to support old encodings, the only
encoding I am supporting right now is utf8-12.1.0.

The current implementation prevents the user from enabling encoding and
per-directory encryption on the same filesystem at the same time.  The
incompatibility between these features lies in how we do efficient
directory searches when we cannot be sure the encryption of the user
provided fname will match the actual hash stored in the disk without
decrypting every directory entry, because of normalization cases.  My
quickest solution is to simply block the concurrent use of these
features for now, and enable it later, once we have a better solution.
"""

Signed-off-by: Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2019-08-23 07:57:13 -07:00
Daniel Rosenberg 4d3aed7090 f2fs: Add option to limit required GC for checkpoint=disable
This extends the checkpoint option to allow checkpoint=disable:%u[%]
This allows you to specify what how much of the disk you are willing
to lose access to while mounting with checkpoint=disable. If the amount
lost would be higher, the mount will return -EAGAIN. This can be given
as a percent of total space, or in blocks.

Currently, we need to run garbage collection until the amount of holes
is smaller than the OVP space. With the new option, f2fs can mark
space as unusable up front instead of requiring garbage collection until
the number of holes is small enough.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2019-06-03 13:27:48 -07:00
Jaegeuk Kim 03f2c02d8b f2fs: run discard jobs when put_super
When we umount f2fs, we need to avoid long delay due to discard commands, which
is actually taking tens of seconds, if storage is very slow on UNMAP. So, this
patch introduces timeout-based work on it.

By default, let me give 5 seconds for discard.

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2019-02-04 08:55:34 -08:00
Chao Yu 3465557556 f2fs: export migration_granularity sysfs entry
Add one sysfs entry to control migration granularity of GC in large
section f2fs, it can be tuned to mitigate heavy overhead of migrating
huge number of blocks in large section.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2018-11-26 15:53:56 -08:00
Sahitya Tummala a7d10cf3e4 f2fs: add new idle interval timing for discard and gc paths
This helps to control the frequency of submission of discard and
GC requests independently, based on the need.

Suggested-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Sahitya Tummala <stummala@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2018-09-19 15:55:14 -07:00
Jaegeuk Kim 853137cef4 f2fs: fix performance issue observed with multi-thread sequential read
This reverts the commit - "b93f771 - f2fs: remove writepages lock"
to fix the drop in sequential read throughput.

Test: ./tiotest -t 32 -d /data/tio_tmp -f 32 -b 524288 -k 1 -k 3 -L
device: UFS

Before -
read throughput: 185 MB/s
total read requests: 85177 (of these ~80000 are 4KB size requests).
total write requests: 2546 (of these ~2208 requests are written in 512KB).

After -
read throughput: 758 MB/s
total read requests: 2417 (of these ~2042 are 512KB reads).
total write requests: 2701 (of these ~2034 requests are written in 512KB).

Signed-off-by: Sahitya Tummala <stummala@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2018-08-20 23:13:42 -07:00
Eric Biggers 9ac19faa91 f2fs: fix features filename in sysfs documentation
The file is called "features", not "feature".

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2018-05-31 11:31:47 -07:00
Chao Yu 377224c471 f2fs: don't split checkpoint in fstrim
Now, we issue discard asynchronously in separated thread instead of in
checkpoint, after that, we won't encounter long latency in checkpoint
due to huge number of synchronous discard command handling, so, we don't
need to split checkpoint to do trim in batch, merge it and obsolete
related sysfs entry.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2018-05-30 08:58:59 -07:00
Chao Yu b6a06cbbb5 f2fs: support hot file extension
This patch supports to recognize hot file extension in f2fs, so that we
can allocate proper hot segment location for its data, which can lead to
better hot/cold seperation in filesystem.

In addition, we changes a bit on query/add/del operation method for
extension_list sysfs entry as below:

- Query: cat /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/extension_list
- Add: echo 'extension' > /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/extension_list
- Del: echo '!extension' > /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/extension_list
- Add: echo '[h/c]extension' > /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/extension_list
- Del: echo '[h/c]!extension' > /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/extension_list
- [h] means add/del hot file extension
- [c] means add/del cold file extension

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2018-03-13 08:05:57 +09:00
Chao Yu 846ae671ad f2fs: expose extension_list sysfs entry
This patch adds a sysfs entry 'extension_list' to support
query/add/del item in extension list.

Query:
cat /sys/fs/f2fs/<device>/extension_list

Add:
echo 'extension' > /sys/fs/f2fs/<device>/extension_list

Del:
echo '!extension' > /sys/fs/f2fs/<device>/extension_list

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2018-03-13 08:05:48 +09:00
Sheng Yong f6df8f234e f2fs: introduce sysfs readdir_ra to readahead inode block in readdir
This patch introduces a sysfs interface readdir_ra to enable/disable
readaheading inode block in f2fs_readdir. When readdir_ra is enabled,
it improves the performance of "readdir + stat".

For 300,000 files:
	time find /data/test > /dev/null
disable readdir_ra: 1m25.69s real  0m01.94s user  0m50.80s system
enable  readdir_ra: 0m18.55s real  0m00.44s user  0m15.39s system

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yong <shengyong1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2018-01-02 19:27:27 -08:00
Chao Yu a2a12b679f f2fs: export SSR allocation threshold
This patch exports min_ssr_segments threshold in sysfs to let user
control triggering SSR allocation flexibly.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2017-11-05 16:41:57 -08:00
Chao Yu b32d73abc6 f2fs: add missing sysfs description
There are some missing sysfs entries' description in document, add them.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2017-11-05 16:41:53 -08:00
Yunlong Song 80d4214501 f2fs: support soft block reservation
It supports to extend reserved_blocks sysfs interface to be soft
threshold, which allows user configure it exceeding current available
user space. This patch also introduces a new sysfs interface called
current_reserved_blocks, which shows the current blocks that have
already been reserved.

Signed-off-by: Yunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2017-11-05 16:41:52 -08:00
Chao Yu 969d1b180d f2fs: introduce discard_granularity sysfs entry
Commit d618ebaf0a ("f2fs: enable small discard by default") enables
f2fs to issue 4K size discard in real-time discard mode. However, issuing
smaller discard may cost more lifetime but releasing less free space in
flash device. Since f2fs has ability of separating hot/cold data and
garbage collection, we can expect that small-sized invalid region would
expand soon with OPU, deletion or garbage collection on valid datas, so
it's better to delay or skip issuing smaller size discards, it could help
to reduce overmuch consumption of IO bandwidth and lifetime of flash
storage.

This patch makes f2fs selectng 64K size as its default minimal
granularity, and issue discard with the size which is not smaller than
minimal granularity. Also it exposes discard granularity as sysfs entry
for configuration in different scenario.

Jaegeuk Kim:
 We must issue all the accumulated discard commands when fstrim is called.
 So, I've added pend_list_tag[] to indicate whether we should issue the
 commands or not. If tag sets P_ACTIVE or P_TRIM, we have to issue them.
 P_TRIM is set once at a time, given fstrim trigger.
 In addition, issue_discard_thread is calling too much due to the number of
 discard commands remaining in the pending list. I added a timer to control
 it likewise gc_thread.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2017-08-21 15:55:07 -07:00
Jaegeuk Kim d9872a698c f2fs: introduce gc_urgent mode for background GC
This patch adds a sysfs entry to control urgent mode for background GC.
If this is set, background GC thread conducts GC with gc_urgent_sleep_time
all the time.

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2017-08-15 10:40:12 -07:00
Chao Yu daeb433e42 f2fs: introduce reserved_blocks in sysfs
In this patch, we add a new sysfs interface, with it, we can control
number of reserved blocks in system which could not be used by user,
it enable f2fs to let user to configure for adjusting over-provision
ratio dynamically instead of changing it by mkfs.

So we can expect it will help to reserve more free space for relieving
GC in both filesystem and flash device.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2017-07-07 10:34:41 -07:00
Chao Yu 56412894b3 f2fs: fix to document fault injection option and sysfs file
Commit 73faec4d99 ("f2fs: add mount option to select fault injection
ratio") and Commit 087968974f ("f2fs: add fault injection to sysfs")
forget to document mount option and sysfs file.

This patch fixes to document them.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2017-07-04 02:11:44 -07:00
Chao Yu 6f6d9fe2ab f2fs: fix incorrect document of batched_trim_sections
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2017-07-04 02:11:42 -07:00
Shuoran Liu 8f1dbbbbdf f2fs: introduce lifetime write IO statistics
This patch introduces lifetime IO write statistics exposed to the sysfs interface.
The write IO amount is obtained from block layer, accumulated in the file system and
stored in the hot node summary of checkpoint.

Signed-off-by: Shuoran Liu <liushuoran@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Pengyang Hou <houpengyang@huawei.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: add sysfs documentation]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2016-02-22 16:07:23 -08:00
Chao Yu 2304cb0c44 f2fs: export dirty_nats_ratio in sysfs
This patch exports a new sysfs entry 'dirty_nat_ratio' to control threshold
of dirty nat entries, if current ratio exceeds configured threshold,
checkpoint will be triggered in f2fs_balance_fs_bg for flushing dirty nats.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2016-02-22 16:07:23 -08:00
Jaegeuk Kim d0239e1bf5 f2fs: detect idle time depending on user behavior
This patch adds last time that user requested filesystem operations.
This information is used to detect whether system is idle or not later.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2016-01-11 15:56:37 -08:00
Chao Yu ea1a29a0bd f2fs: export ra_nid_pages to sysfs
After finishing building free nid cache, we will try to readahead
asynchronously 4 more pages for the next reloading, the count of
readahead nid pages is fixed.

In some case, like SMR drive, read less sectors with fixed count
each time we trigger RA may be low efficient, since we will face
high seeking overhead, so we'd better let user to configure this
parameter from sysfs in specific workload.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2015-10-12 14:03:43 -07:00
Jaegeuk Kim 60b99b486b f2fs: introduce a periodic checkpoint flow
This patch introduces a periodic checkpoint feature.
Note that, this is not enforcing to conduct checkpoints very strictly in terms
of trigger timing, instead just hope to help user experiences.
The default value is 60 seconds.

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2015-10-09 16:20:57 -07:00
Jaegeuk Kim bba681cbb2 f2fs: introduce a batched trim
This patch introduces a batched trimming feature, which submits split discard
commands.

This is to avoid long latency due to huge trim commands.
If fstrim was triggered ranging from 0 to the end of device, we should lock
all the checkpoint-related mutexes, resulting in very long latency.

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2015-02-11 17:04:44 -08:00
Jaegeuk Kim c1ce1b02bb 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>
2014-09-16 04:10:44 -07:00
Jaegeuk Kim 9179682591 f2fs: add missing documentation for dir_level
This patch adds missing dir_level documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2014-03-20 22:10:10 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim cdfc41c134 f2fs: throttle the memory footprint with a sysfs entry
This patch introduces ram_thresh, a sysfs entry, which controls the memory
footprint used by the free nid list and the nat cache.

Previously, the free nid list was controlled by MAX_FREE_NIDS, while the nat
cache was managed by NM_WOUT_THRESHOLD.
However, this approach cannot be applied dynamically according to the system.

So, this patch adds ram_thresh that users can specify the threshold, which is
in order of 1 / 1024.
For example, if the total ram size is 4GB and the value is set to 10 by default,
f2fs tries to control the number of free nids and nat caches not to consume over
10 * (4GB / 1024) = 10MB.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2014-03-20 22:10:09 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim 3bac380c90 f2fs: update documents and a MAINTAINERS entry
This patch adds missing some description of sysfs entries in
 - Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs
 - Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt.

And it adds a maintained document entry of F2FS in MAINTAINERS.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2014-01-09 21:00:06 +09:00
Namjae Jeon d2dc095f42 f2fs: add sysfs entries to select the gc policy
Add sysfs entry gc_idle to control the gc policy. Where
gc_idle = 1 corresponds to selecting a cost benefit approach,
while gc_idle = 2 corresponds to selecting a greedy approach
to garbage collection. The selection is mutually exclusive one
approach will work at any point. If gc_idle = 0, then this
option is disabled.

Cc: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Kumar <pankaj.km@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: change the select_gc_type() flow slightly]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-08-06 22:00:18 +09:00
Namjae Jeon b59d0bae6c f2fs: add sysfs support for controlling the gc_thread
Add sysfs entries to control the timing parameters for
f2fs gc thread.

Various Sysfs options introduced are:
gc_min_sleep_time: Min Sleep time for GC in ms
gc_max_sleep_time: Max Sleep time for GC in ms
gc_no_gc_sleep_time: Default Sleep time for GC in ms

Cc: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Kumar <pankaj.km@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: fix an umount bug and some minor changes]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-08-06 21:53:34 +09:00