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>
NVMe Zoned Namespace devices can have zone-capacity less than zone-size.
Zone-capacity indicates the maximum number of sectors that are usable in
a zone beginning from the first sector of the zone. This makes the sectors
sectors after the zone-capacity till zone-size to be unusable.
This patch set tracks zone-size and zone-capacity in zoned devices and
calculate the usable blocks per segment and usable segments per section.
If zone-capacity is less than zone-size mark only those segments which
start before zone-capacity as free segments. All segments at and beyond
zone-capacity are treated as permanently used segments. In cases where
zone-capacity does not align with segment size the last segment will start
before zone-capacity and end beyond the zone-capacity of the zone. For
such spanning segments only sectors within the zone-capacity are used.
During writes and GC manage the usable segments in a section and usable
blocks per segment. Segments which are beyond zone-capacity are never
allocated, and do not need to be garbage collected, only the segments
which are before zone-capacity needs to garbage collected.
For spanning segments based on the number of usable blocks in that
segment, write to blocks only up to zone-capacity.
Zone-capacity is device specific and cannot be configured by the user.
Since NVMe ZNS device zones are sequentially write only, a block device
with conventional zones or any normal block device is needed along with
the ZNS device for the metadata operations of F2fs.
A typical nvme-cli output of a zoned device shows zone start and capacity
and write pointer as below:
SLBA: 0x0 WP: 0x0 Cap: 0x18800 State: EMPTY Type: SEQWRITE_REQ
SLBA: 0x20000 WP: 0x20000 Cap: 0x18800 State: EMPTY Type: SEQWRITE_REQ
SLBA: 0x40000 WP: 0x40000 Cap: 0x18800 State: EMPTY Type: SEQWRITE_REQ
Here zone size is 64MB, capacity is 49MB, WP is at zone start as the zones
are in EMPTY state. For each zone, only zone start + 49MB is usable area,
any lba/sector after 49MB cannot be read or written to, the drive will fail
any attempts to read/write. So, the second zone starts at 64MB and is
usable till 113MB (64 + 49) and the range between 113 and 128MB is
again unusable. The next zone starts at 128MB, and so on.
Signed-off-by: Aravind Ramesh <aravind.ramesh@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch corrects the SPDX License Identifier style in
header files related to F2FS File System support.
For C header files Documentation/process/license-rules.rst
mandates C-like comments (opposed to C source files where
C++ style should be used).
Changes made by using a script provided by Joe Perches here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/2/7/46.
Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishad Kamdar <nishadkamdar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Remove the verbose license text from f2fs files and replace them with
SPDX tags. This does not change the license of any of the code.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch gives a flag to disable GC on given file, which would be useful, when
user wants to keep its block map. It also conducts in-place-update for dontmove
file.
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
While comparing signed and unsigned variables, compiler will converts the
signed value to unsigned one, due to this reason, {in,de}crease_sleep_time
may return overflowed result.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
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>
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>
This patch drops in batches gc triggered through ioctl, since user
can easily control the gc by designing the loop around the ->ioctl.
We support synchronous gc by forcing using FG_GC in f2fs_gc, so with
it, user can make sure that in this round all blocks gced were
persistent in the device until ioctl returned.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
When background gc is off, the only way to trigger gc is executing
a force gc in some operations who wants to grab space in disk.
The executing condition is limited: to execute force gc, we should
wait for the time when there is almost no more free section for LFS
allocation. This seems not reasonable for our user who wants to
control triggering gc by himself.
This patch introduces F2FS_IOC_GARBAGE_COLLECT interface for
triggering garbage collection by using ioctl. It provides our users
one more option to trigger gc.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch resolves the following warnings.
include/trace/events/f2fs.h:150:1: warning: expression using sizeof bool
include/trace/events/f2fs.h:180:1: warning: expression using sizeof bool
include/trace/events/f2fs.h:990:1: warning: expression using sizeof bool
include/trace/events/f2fs.h:990:1: warning: expression using sizeof bool
include/trace/events/f2fs.h:150:1: warning: odd constant _Bool cast (ffffffffffffffff becomes 1)
include/trace/events/f2fs.h:180:1: warning: odd constant _Bool cast (ffffffffffffffff becomes 1)
include/trace/events/f2fs.h:990:1: warning: odd constant _Bool cast (ffffffffffffffff becomes 1)
include/trace/events/f2fs.h:990:1: warning: odd constant _Bool cast (ffffffffffffffff becomes 1)
fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c:27:19: warning: symbol 'inode_entry_slab' was not declared. Should it be static?
fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c:577:15: warning: cast to restricted __le32
fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c:592:15: warning: cast to restricted __le32
fs/f2fs/trace.c:19:1: warning: symbol 'pids' was not declared. Should it be static?
fs/f2fs/trace.c:21:21: warning: symbol 'last_io' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Use pointer parameter @wait to pass result in {in,de}create_sleep_time for
cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
There are two slab cache inode_entry_slab and winode_slab using the same
structure as below:
struct dir_inode_entry {
struct list_head list; /* list head */
struct inode *inode; /* vfs inode pointer */
};
struct inode_entry {
struct list_head list;
struct inode *inode;
};
It's a little waste that the two cache can not share their memory space for each
other.
So in this patch we remove one redundant winode_slab slab cache, then use more
universal name struct inode_entry as remaining data structure name of slab,
finally we reuse the inode_entry_slab to store dirty dir item and gc item for
more effective.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
If there are many inodes that have data blocks in victim segment,
it takes long time to find a inode in gc_inode list.
Let's use radix_tree to reduce lookup time.
Signed-off-by: Changman Lee <cm224.lee@samsung.com>
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>
Previously during SSR and GC, the maximum number of retrials to find a victim
segment was hard-coded by MAX_VICTIM_SEARCH, 4096 by default.
This number makes an effect on IO locality, when SSR mode is activated, which
results in performance fluctuation on some low-end devices.
If max_victim_search = 4, the victim will be searched like below.
("D" represents a dirty segment, and "*" indicates a selected victim segment.)
D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 D8 D9
[ * ]
[ * ]
[ * ]
[ ....]
This patch adds a sysfs entry to control the number dynamically through:
/sys/fs/f2fs/$dev/max_victim_search
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch improves the gc efficiency by optimizing the victim
selection policy. With this optimization, the random re-write
performance could increase up to 20%.
For f2fs, when disk is in shortage of free spaces, gc will selects
dirty segments and moves valid blocks around for making more space
available. The gc cost of a segment is determined by the valid blocks
in the segment. The less the valid blocks, the higher the efficiency.
The ideal victim segment is the one that has the most garbage blocks.
Currently, it searches up to 20 dirty segments for a victim segment.
The selected victim is not likely the best victim for gc when there
are much more dirty segments. Why not searching more dirty segments
for a better victim? The cost of searching dirty segments is
negligible in comparison to moving blocks.
In this patch, it enlarges the MAX_VICTIM_SEARCH to 4096 to make
the search more aggressively for a possible better victim. Since
it also applies to victim selection for SSR, it will likely improve
the SSR efficiency as well.
The test case is simple. It creates as many files until the disk full.
The size for each file is 32KB. Then it writes as many as 100000
records of 4KB size to random offsets of random files in sync mode.
The testing was done on a 2GB partition of a SDHC card. Let's see the
test result of f2fs without and with the patch.
---------------------------------------
2GB partition, SDHC
create 52023 files of size 32768 bytes
random re-write 100000 records of 4KB
---------------------------------------
| file creation (s) | rewrite time (s) | gc count | gc garbage blocks |
[no patch] 341 4227 1174 174840
[patched] 324 2958 645 106682
It's obvious that, with the patch, f2fs finishes the test in 20+% less
time than without the patch. And internally it does much less gc with
higher efficiency than before.
Since the performance improvement is related to gc, it might not be so
obvious for other tests that do not trigger gc as often as this one (
This is because f2fs selects dirty segments for SSR use most of the
time when free space is in shortage). The well-known iozone test tool
was not used for benchmarking the patch becuase it seems do not have
a test case that performs random re-write on a full disk.
This patch is the revised version based on the suggestion from
Jaegeuk Kim.
Signed-off-by: Jin Xu <jinuxstyle@gmail.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: suggested simpler solution]
Reviewed-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
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>
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>
If there is no victim segments selected by background GC, let's wait
a little bit longer time to collect dirty segments.
By default, let's give 5 minutes.
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch makes clearer the ambiguous f2fs_gc flow as follows.
1. Remove intermediate checkpoint condition during f2fs_gc
(i.e., should_do_checkpoint() and GC_BLOCKED)
2. Remove unnecessary return values of f2fs_gc because of #1.
(i.e., GC_NODE, GC_OK, etc)
3. Simplify write_checkpoint() because of #2.
4. Clarify the main f2fs_gc flow.
o monitor how many freed sections during one iteration of do_garbage_collect().
o do GC more without checkpoints if we can't get enough free sections.
o do checkpoint once we've got enough free sections through forground GCs.
5. Adopt thread-logging (Slack-Space-Recycle) scheme more aggressively on data
log types. See. get_ssr_segement()
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Introduce accessor to get the sections based upon the block type
(node,dents...) and modify the functions : should_do_checkpoint,
has_not_enough_free_secs to use this accessor function to get
the node sections and dent sections.
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Currently GC task is started for each f2fs formatted/mounted device.
But, when we check the task list, using 'ps', there is no distinguishing
factor between the tasks. So, name the task as per the block device just
like the flusher threads.
Also, remove the macro GC_THREAD_NAME and instead use the name: f2fs_gc
to avoid name length truncation, as the command length is 16
-> TASK_COMM_LEN 16 and example name like:
f2fs_gc_task:8:16 -> this exceeds name length
Before Patch for 2 F2FS formatted partitions:
root 28061 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 10:31 0:00 [f2fs_gc_task]
root 28087 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 10:32 0:00 [f2fs_gc_task]
After Patch:
root 16756 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 14:57 0:00 [f2fs_gc-8:18]
root 16765 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 14:57 0:00 [f2fs_gc-8:19]
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
As pointed out by Randy Dunlap, this patch removes all usage of "/**" for comment
blocks. Instead, just use "/*".
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This adds on-demand and background cleaning functions.
- The basic background cleaning policy is trying to do cleaning jobs as much as
possible whenever the system is idle. Once the background cleaning is done,
the cleaner sleeps an amount of time not to interfere with VFS calls. The time
is dynamically adjusted according to the status of whole segments, which is
decreased when the following conditions are satisfied.
. GC is not conducted currently, and
. IO subsystem is idle by checking the number of requets in bdev's request
list, and
. There are enough dirty segments.
Otherwise, the time is increased incrementally until to the maximum time.
Note that, min and max times are 10 secs and 30 secs by default.
- F2FS adopts a default victim selection policy where background cleaning uses
a cost-benefit algorithm, while on-demand cleaning uses a greedy algorithm.
- The method of moving data during the cleaning is slightly different between
background and on-demand cleaning schemes. In the case of background cleaning,
F2FS loads the data, and marks them as dirty. Then, F2FS expects that the data
will be moved by flusher or VM. In the case of on-demand cleaning, F2FS should
move the data right away.
- In order to identify valid blocks in a victim segment, F2FS scans the bitmap
of the segment managed as an SIT entry.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Chao Yu