Previously, f2fs activates SSR if the # of free segments reaches to the # of
overprovisioned segments.
In this case, SSR starts to use dirty segments only, so that the overprovisoned
space cannot be selected for new data.
This means that we have no chance to utilizae the overprovisioned space at all.
This patch fixes that by allowing LFS allocations until the # of free segments
reaches to the last threshold, reserved space.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch changes the ipu_policy setting to use any combination of orthogonal policies.
Signed-off-by: Changman Lee <cm224.lee@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
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>
Previously, all the dnode pages should be read during the roll-forward recovery.
Even worsely, whole the chain was traversed twice.
This patch removes that redundant and costly read operations by using page cache
of meta_inode and readahead function as well.
Reviewed-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>
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>
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 enforces in-place-updates only when fdatasync is requested.
If we adopt this in-place-updates for the fdatasync, we can skip to write the
recovery information.
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
In __set_test_and_free we will check whether all segment are free in one section
When free one segment, in order to set section to free status.
But the searching region of segmap is from start segno to last segno of f2fs,
it's not necessary. So let's just only check all segment bitmap of target
section.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
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>
This patch introduces nr_pages_to_write to align page writes to the segment
or other operational unit size, which can be tuned according to the system
environment.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch introduces nr_pages_to_skip(sbi, type) to determine writepages can
be skipped.
The dentry, node, and meta pages can be conrolled by F2FS without breaking the
FS consistency.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
The stat_show is just to show the current status of f2fs.
So, we can remove all the there-in locks.
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>
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>
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>
Previously f2fs allocates its own bi_private data structure all the time even
though we don't use it. But, can we remove this bi_private allocation?
This patch removes such the additional bi_private allocation.
1. Retrieve f2fs_sb_info from its page->mapping->host->i_sb.
- This removes the usecases of bi_private in end_io.
2. Use bi_private only when we really need it.
- The bi_private is used only when the checkpoint procedure is conducted.
- When conducting the checkpoint, f2fs submits a META_FLUSH bio to wait its bio
completion.
- Since we have no dependancies to remove bi_private now, let's just use
bi_private pointer as the completion pointer.
Reviewed-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
The void *wait in bio_private is used for waiting completion of checkpoint bio.
So we don't need to use its type as void, but declare it as completion type.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: add description]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch fixes some bit overflows by the shift operations.
Dan Carpenter reported potential bugs on bit overflows as follows.
fs/f2fs/segment.c:910 submit_write_page()
warn: should 'blk_addr << ((sbi)->log_blocksize - 9)' be a 64 bit type?
fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c:429 get_valid_checkpoint()
warn: should '1 << ()' be a 64 bit type?
fs/f2fs/data.c:408 f2fs_readpage()
warn: should 'blk_addr << ((sbi)->log_blocksize - 9)' be a 64 bit type?
fs/f2fs/data.c:457 submit_read_page()
warn: should 'blk_addr << ((sbi)->log_blocksize - 9)' be a 64 bit type?
fs/f2fs/data.c:525 get_data_block_ro()
warn: should 'i << blkbits' be a 64 bit type?
Bug-Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Previously we read sit entries page one by one, this method lost the chance
of reading contiguous page together. So we read pages as contiguous as
possible for better mount performance.
change log:
o merge judgements/use 'Continue' or 'Break' instead of 'Goto' as Gu Zheng
suggested.
o add mark_page_accessed() before release page to delay VM reclaiming.
o remove '*order' for simplification of function as Jaegeuk Kim suggested.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: fix a bug on the block address calculation]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
It is not efficient comparing each segment type to find node or data.
Signed-off-by: Changman Lee <cm224.lee@samsung.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: remove unnecessary white spaces]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Previously, check_block_count check valid_map with bit data type in common
scenario that sit has all ones or zeros bitmap, it makes low mount performance.
So let's check the special bitmap with integer data type instead of the bit one.
v1-->v2:
o use find_next_{zero_}bit_le for better performance and readable as Jaegeuk
suggested.
o use neat logogram in comment as Gu Zheng suggested.
o search continuous ones or zeros for better performance when checking mixed
bitmap.
Suggested-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Shu Tan <shu.tan@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
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>
This patch add macro MAX_BIO_BLOCKS to limit value of npages in
f2fs_bio_alloc, it can avoid allocating failure in bio_alloc caused by
npages is larger than BIO_MAX_PAGES.
Signed-off-by: Yu Chao <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
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>
The current f2fs uses all the block counts with 32 bit numbers, which is able to
cover about 15TB volume.
But in calculation of utilization, f2fs multiplies the count by 100 which can
induce overflow.
This patch fixes this.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Previously, f2fs conducts SSR when free_sections() < overprovision_sections.
But, even though there are a lot of prefree segments, it can consider SSR only.
So, let's consider the number of prefree segments too for triggering SSR.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
When testing f2fs on an SSD, I found some 128 page IOs followed by 1 page IO
were issued by f2fs_write_node_pages.
This means that there were some mishandling flows which degrades performance.
Previous f2fs_write_node_pages determines the number of pages to be written,
nr_to_write, as follows.
1. The bio_get_nr_vecs returns 129 pages.
2. The bio_alloc makes a room for 128 pages.
3. The initial 128 pages go into one bio.
4. The existing bio is submitted, and a new bio is prepared for the last 1 page.
5. Finally, sync_node_pages submits the last 1 page bio.
The problem is from the use of bio_get_nr_vecs, so this patch replace it
with max_hw_blocks using queue_max_sectors.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Fix typo mistakes.
1. I think that it should be 'L' instead of 'V'.
2. and try to fix 'Front' instead of 'Frone'
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>
This patch removes a bitmap for victim segments selected by foreground GC, and
modifies the other bitmap for victim segments selected by background GC.
1) foreground GC bitmap
: We don't need to manage this, since we just only one previous victim section
number instead of the whole victim history.
The f2fs uses the victim section number in order not to allocate currently
GC'ed section to current active logs.
2) background GC bitmap
: This bitmap is used to avoid selecting victims repeatedly by background GCs.
In addition, the victims are able to be selected by foreground GCs, since
there is no need to read victim blocks during foreground GCs.
By the fact that the foreground GC reclaims segments in a section unit, it'd
be better to manage this bitmap based on the section granularity.
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Let's use a macro to get the total number of sections.
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
A macro should not use duplicate parameter names.
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Use div_u64 to fix overflow when calculating utilization.
*long int* is 4-bytes on 32-bit so (user blocks * 100) might be
overflow if disk size is over e.g. 512GB.
Signed-off-by: Changman Lee <cm224.lee@samsung.com>
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>
Instead of evaluating the free_sections and then deciding to return
true/false from that path. We can directly use the evaluation condition
for returning proper value.
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>
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>
Practically, has_not_enough_free_secs() should calculate with the numbers of
current node and directory data blocks together.
Actually the equation was implemented in need_to_flush().
So, this patch removes need_flush() and moves the equation into
has_not_enough_free_secs().
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Do cleanup more for better code readability.
- Change the parameter set of f2fs_bio_alloc()
This function should allocate a bio only since it is not something like
f2fs_bio_init(). Instead, the caller should initialize the allocated bio.
- Introduce SECTOR_FROM_BLOCK
This macro translates a block address to its sector address.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@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 the following major in-memory structures in f2fs.
- f2fs_sb_info:
contains f2fs-specific information, two special inode pointers for node and
meta address spaces, and orphan inode management.
- f2fs_inode_info:
contains vfs_inode and other fs-specific information.
- f2fs_nm_info:
contains node manager information such as NAT entry cache, free nid list,
and NAT page management.
- f2fs_node_info:
represents a node as node id, inode number, block address, and its version.
- f2fs_sm_info:
contains segment manager information such as SIT entry cache, free segment
map, current active logs, dirty segment management, and segment utilization.
The specific structures are sit_info, free_segmap_info, dirty_seglist_info,
curseg_info.
In addition, add F2FS_SUPER_MAGIC in magic.h.
Signed-off-by: Chul Lee <chur.lee@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Jaegeuk Kim