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Jaegeuk Kim
b1c57c1caa f2fs: add a sysfs entry to control max_victim_search
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>
2014-01-08 13:45:08 +09:00
Jin Xu
a26b7c8a01 f2fs: optimize gc for better performance
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>
2013-09-05 13:50:32 +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
Jaegeuk Kim
6cb968d9b0 f2fs: avoid frequent background GC
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>
2013-04-26 10:35:03 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim
437275272f f2fs: clarify and enhance the f2fs_gc flow
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>
2013-02-12 07:15:02 +09:00
Namjae Jeon
5ac206cf4f f2fs: make an accessor to get sections for particular block type
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>
2013-02-12 07:15:02 +09:00
Namjae Jeon
ec7b1f2dd1 f2fs: name gc task as per the block device
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>
2013-02-12 07:15:02 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim
0a8165d7c2 f2fs: adjust kernel coding style
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>
2012-12-11 13:43:42 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim
7bc0900347 f2fs: add garbage collection functions
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>
2012-12-11 13:43:41 +09:00