Block size in f2fs is 4096 bytes, so theoretically, f2fs can support 4096 bytes
sector device at maximum. But now f2fs only support 512 bytes size sector, so
block device such as zRAM which uses page cache as its block storage space will
not be mounted successfully as mismatch between sector size of zRAM and sector
size of f2fs supported.
In this patch we support large sector size in f2fs, so block device with sector
size of 512/1024/2048/4096 bytes can be supported in f2fs.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
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>
We use flush cmd control to collect many flush cmds, and flush them
together. In this case, we use two list to manage the flush cmds
(collect and dispatch), and one spin lock is used to protect this.
In fact, the lock-less list(llist) is very suitable to this case,
and we use simplify this routine.
-
v2:
-use llist_for_each_entry_safe to fix possible use-after-free issue.
-remove the unused field from struct flush_cmd.
Thanks for Yu's suggestion.
-
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
In commit aec71382c6 ("f2fs: refactor flush_nat_entries codes for reducing NAT
writes"), we descripte the issue as below:
"Although building NAT journal in cursum reduce the read/write work for NAT
block, but previous design leave us lower performance when write checkpoint
frequently for these cases:
1. if journal in cursum has already full, it's a bit of waste that we flush all
nat entries to page for persistence, but not to cache any entries.
2. if journal in cursum is not full, we fill nat entries to journal util
journal is full, then flush the left dirty entries to disk without merge
journaled entries, so these journaled entries may be flushed to disk at next
checkpoint but lost chance to flushed last time."
Actually, we have the same problem in using SIT journal area.
In this patch, firstly we will update sit journal with dirty entries as many as
possible. Secondly if there is no space in sit journal, we will remove all
entries in journal and walk through the whole dirty entry bitmap of sit,
accounting dirty sit entries located in same SIT block to sit entry set. All
entry sets are linked to list sit_entry_set in sm_info, sorted ascending order
by count of entries in set. Later we flush entries in set which have fewest
entries into journal as many as we can, and then flush dense set with merged
entries to disk.
In this way we can use sit journal area more effectively, also we will reduce
SIT update, result in gaining in performance and saving lifetime of flash
device.
In my testing environment, it shows this patch can help to reduce SIT block
update obviously.
virtual machine + hard disk:
fsstress -p 20 -n 400 -l 5
sit page num cp count sit pages/cp
based 2006.50 1349.75 1.486
patched 1566.25 1463.25 1.070
Our latency of merging op is small when handling a great number of dirty SIT
entries in flush_sit_entries:
latency(ns) dirty sit count
36038 2151
49168 2123
37174 2232
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
sit_i in macro SIT_BLOCK_OFFSET/START_SEGNO is not used, remove it.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch replaces BUG cases with f2fs_bug_on to remain fsck.f2fs information.
And it implements some void functions to initiate fsck.f2fs too.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
I think we need to let the dirty node pages remain in the page cache instead
of rewriting them in their places.
So, after done with successful recovery, write_checkpoint will flush all of them
through the normal write path.
Through this, we can avoid potential error cases in terms of block allocation.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Fix typo and some grammatical errors.
The words "filesystem" and "readahead" are being used without the space treewide.
Signed-off-by: Park Ju Hyung <qkrwngud825@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch uses for_each_set_bit to simplify some codes in f2fs.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
There are redundant lines in allocate_data_block.
In this function, we call refresh_sit_entry with old seg and old curseg.
After that, we call locate_dirty_segment with old curseg.
But, the new address is always allocated from old curseg and
we call locate_dirty_segment with old curseg in refresh_sit_entry.
So, we do not need to call locate_dirty_segment with old curseg again.
We've discussed like below:
Jaegeuk said:
"When considering SSR, we need to take care of the following scenario.
- old segno : X
- new address : Z
- old curseg : Y
This means, a new block is supposed to be written to Z from X.
And Z is newly allocated in the same path from Y.
In that case, we should trigger locate_dirty_segment for Y, since
it was a current_segment and can be dirty owing to SSR.
But that was not included in the dirty list."
Changman said:
"We already choosed old curseg(Y) and then we allocate new address(Z) from old
curseg(Y). After that we call refresh_sit_entry(old address, new address).
In the funcation, we call locate_dirty_segment with old seg and old curseg.
So calling locate_dirty_segment after refresh_sit_entry again is redundant."
Jaegeuk said:
"Right. The new address is always allocated from old_curseg."
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Dongho Sim <dh.sim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch adds a mount option, nobarrier, in f2fs.
The assumption in here is that file system keeps the IO ordering, but
doesn't care about cache flushes inside the storages.
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
In this patch we use below inner macro and function to clean up codes.
1. ADDRS_PER_PAGE
2. SM_I
3. f2fs_readonly
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75861
Denis 2014-05-10 11:28:59 UTC reported:
"F2FS-fs (mmcblk0p28): mounting..
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000018
...
[<c0a2f678>] (_raw_spin_lock+0x3c/0x70) from [<c03a0330>] (issue_flush_thread+0x50/0x17c)
[<c03a0330>] (issue_flush_thread+0x50/0x17c) from [<c01b4064>] (kthread+0x98/0xa4)
[<c01b4064>] (kthread+0x98/0xa4) from [<c0108060>] (kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8)"
This patch assign cmd_control_info in sm_info before issue_flush_thread is being
created, so this make sure that issue flush thread will have no chance to access
invalid info in fcc.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
If we use slab memory in f2fs_issue_flush(), we will face memory pressure and
latency time caused by racing of kmem_cache_{alloc,free}.
Let's alloc memory in stack instead of slab.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Introduce help function {create,destroy}_flush_cmd_control to clean up
the create/destory flush merge operation.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Split the flush_merge fields from sm_i, and use the new struct flush_cmd_control
to wrap it, so that we can igonre these fileds if flush_merge is disable, and
it alse can the structs more neat.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Add the *remount* handle of flush_merge option, so that the users
can enable flush_merge in the runtime, such as the underlying device
handles the cache_flush command relatively slowly.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
The f2fs always scans the next chain of direct node blocks.
But some garbage blocks are able to be remained due to no discard support or
SSR triggers.
This occasionally wreaks recovering wrong inodes that were used or BUG_ONs
due to reallocating node ids as follows.
When mount this f2fs image:
http://linuxtesting.org/downloads/f2fs_fault_image.zip
BUG_ON is triggered in f2fs driver (messages below are generated on
kernel 3.13.2; for other kernels output is similar):
kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/node.c:215!
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa032ebad>] recover_inode_page+0x1fd/0x3e0 [f2fs]
[<ffffffff811446e7>] ? __lock_page+0x67/0x70
[<ffffffff81089990>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x50/0x50
[<ffffffffa0337788>] recover_fsync_data+0x1398/0x15d0 [f2fs]
[<ffffffff812b9e5c>] ? selinux_d_instantiate+0x1c/0x20
[<ffffffff811cb20b>] ? d_instantiate+0x5b/0x80
[<ffffffffa0321044>] f2fs_fill_super+0xb04/0xbf0 [f2fs]
[<ffffffff811b861e>] ? mount_bdev+0x7e/0x210
[<ffffffff811b8769>] mount_bdev+0x1c9/0x210
[<ffffffffa0320540>] ? validate_superblock+0x210/0x210 [f2fs]
[<ffffffffa031cf8d>] f2fs_mount+0x1d/0x30 [f2fs]
[<ffffffff811b9497>] mount_fs+0x47/0x1c0
[<ffffffff81166e00>] ? __alloc_percpu+0x10/0x20
[<ffffffff811d4032>] vfs_kern_mount+0x72/0x110
[<ffffffff811d6763>] do_mount+0x493/0x910
[<ffffffff811615cb>] ? strndup_user+0x5b/0x80
[<ffffffff811d6c70>] SyS_mount+0x90/0xe0
[<ffffffff8166f8d9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Found by Linux File System Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
Reported-by: Andrey Tsyvarev <tsyvarev@ispras.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Enable flush_merge only in f2fs is not read-only, so does the mount
option show.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Some storage devices show relatively high latencies to complete cache_flush
commands, even though their normal IO speed is prettry much high. In such
the case, it needs to merge cache_flush commands as much as possible to avoid
issuing them redundantly.
So, this patch introduces a mount option, "-o flush_merge", to mitigate such
the overhead.
If this option is enabled by user, F2FS merges the cache_flush commands and then
issues just one cache_flush on behalf of them. Once the single command is
finished, F2FS sends a completion signal to all the pending threads.
Note that, this option can be used under a workload consisting of very intensive
concurrent fsync calls, while the storage handles cache_flush commands slowly.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
In the f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback, io->bio should be covered by io_rwsem.
Otherwise, the bio pointer can become a dangling pointer due to data races.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch use list_for_each_entry{_safe} instead of list_for_each{_safe} for
simplfying code.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch introduce is_merged_page() to check whether current page is merged
in f2fs bio cache. When page is not in cache, we can avoid submitting bio cache,
resulting in having more chance to merge pages.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
It is more reasonable to determine the reclaiming rate of prefree segments
according to the volume size, which is set to 5% by default.
For example, if the volume is 128GB, the prefree segments are reclaimed
when the number reaches to 6.4GB.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
We should return error number of read_normal_summaries instead of -EINVAL when
read_normal_summaries failed.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Previously, we ra_sum_pages to pre-read contiguous pages as more
as possible, and if we fail to alloc more pages, an ENOMEM error
will be reported upstream, even though we have alloced some pages
yet. In fact, we can use the available pages to do the job partly,
and continue the rest in the following circle. Only reporting ENOMEM
upstream if we really can not alloc any available page.
And another fix is ignoring dealing with the following pages if an
EIO occurs when reading page from page_list.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: modify the flow for better neat code]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch help us to cleanup the readahead code by merging ra_{sit,nat}_pages
function into ra_meta_pages.
Additionally the new function is used to readahead cp block in
recover_orphan_inodes.
Change log from v1:
o fix a deadloop bug pointed by Jaegeuk Kim.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Introduce help function META_MAPPING() to get the cache meta blocks'
address space.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Fixed a variety of trivial checkpatch warnings. The only delta should
be some minor formatting on log strings that were split / too long.
Signed-off-by: Chris Fries <cfries@motorola.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
"boo sync" parameter is never referenced in f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback.
We should remove this parameter.
Signed-off-by: Yuan Zhong <yuan.mark.zhong@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
When considering a bunch of data writes with very frequent fsync calls, we
are able to think the following performance regression.
N: Node IO, D: Data IO, IO scheduler: cfq
Issue pending IOs
D1 D2 D3 D4
D1 D2 D3 D4 N1
D2 D3 D4 N1 N2
N1 D3 D4 N2 D1
--> N1 can be selected by cfq becase of the same priority of N and D.
Then D3 and D4 would be delayed, resuling in performance degradation.
So, when processing the fsync call, it'd better give higher priority to data IOs
than node IOs by assigning WRITE and WRITE_SYNC respectively.
This patch improves the random wirte performance with frequent fsync calls by up
to 10%.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
When using the f2fs_io_info in the low level, we still need to merge the
rw and rw_flag, so use the rw to hold all the io flags directly,
and remove the rw_flag field.
ps.It is based on the previous patch:
f2fs: move all the bio initialization into __bio_alloc
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Previously, f2fs doesn't support direct IOs with high performance, which throws
every write requests via the buffered write path, resulting in highly
performance degradation due to memory opeations like copy_from_user.
This patch introduces a new direct IO path in which every write requests are
processed by generic blockdev_direct_IO() with enhanced get_block function.
The get_data_block() in f2fs handles:
1. if original data blocks are allocates, then give them to blockdev.
2. otherwise,
a. preallocate requested block addresses
b. do not use extent cache for better performance
c. give the block addresses to blockdev
This policy induces that:
- new allocated data are sequentially written to the disk
- updated data are randomly written to the disk.
- f2fs gives consistency on its file meta, not file data.
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
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>
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>
Chao Yu