linux-toradex.git/fs/f2fs/segment.c, branch v3.14.47

f2fs: add help function META_MAPPING

2014-01-22T09:41:07+00:00

Introduce help function META_MAPPING() to get the cache meta blocks'
address space.

Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng 
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: clean checkpatch warnings

2014-01-20T01:27:12+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: remove the needless parameter of f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback

2014-01-14T08:45:54+00:00

"boo sync" parameter is never referenced in f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback.
We should remove this parameter.

Signed-off-by: Yuan Zhong 
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: improve write performance under frequent fsync calls

2014-01-08T02:16:20+00:00

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

f2fs: remove the rw_flag domain from f2fs_io_info

2013-12-23T01:18:07+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: introduce a new direct_IO write path

2013-12-23T01:18:07+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: introduce sysfs entry to control in-place-update policy

2013-12-23T01:18:07+00:00

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

f2fs: refactor bio->rw handling

2013-12-23T01:18:06+00:00

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 
Cc: Changman Lee 
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: merge pages with the same sync_mode flag

2013-12-23T01:18:06+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: refactor bio-related operations

2013-12-23T01:18:05+00:00

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 
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu 
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim