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Gu Zheng
e8512d2e0c f2fs: remove the unused ctor argument of f2fs_kmem_cache_create()
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2014-03-10 18:45:14 +09:00
Chao Yu
81c1a0f13e f2fs: readahead contiguous SSA blocks for f2fs_gc
If there are multi segments in one section, we will read those SSA blocks which
have contiguous address one by one in f2fs_gc. It may lost performance, let's
read ahead SSA blocks by merge multi read request.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2014-02-27 20:40:36 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim
1fe54f9dd3 f2fs: clean up redundant function call
This patch integrates inode_[inc|dec]_dirty_dents with inc_page_count to remove
redundant calls.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2014-02-17 14:58:53 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim
203681f65b f2fs: fix f2fs_write_meta_page at no checkpoint status
If f2fs entered errorneous checkpoint status, it should skip writing meta
pages instead of redirtying the pages out.
Otherwise, it cannot unmount the partition even though f2fs is under read-only
status.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2014-02-17 14:58:53 +09:00
Yuan Zhong
5514f0aadd f2fs: remove the needless parameter of f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback
"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>
2014-01-14 17:45:54 +09:00
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
Gu Zheng
7e8f23081a f2fs: remove the rw_flag domain from f2fs_io_info
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>
2013-12-23 10:18:07 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim
458e6197c3 f2fs: refactor bio->rw handling
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>
2013-12-23 10:18:06 +09:00
Fan Li
63a0b7cb33 f2fs: merge pages with the same sync_mode flag
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>
2013-12-23 10:18:06 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim
6bacf52fb5 f2fs: add unlikely() macro for compiler more aggressively
This patch adds unlikely() macro into the most of codes.
The basic rule is to add that when:
- checking unusual errors,
- checking page mappings,
- and the other unlikely conditions.

Change log from v1:
 - Don't add unlikely for the NULL test and error test: advised by Andi Kleen.

Cc: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-12-23 10:18:06 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim
93dfe2ac51 f2fs: refactor bio-related operations
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>
2013-12-23 10:18:05 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim
031fa8cc9b f2fs: remove unnecessary condition checks
This patch removes the unnecessary condition checks on:

fs/f2fs/gc.c:667 do_garbage_collect() warn: 'sum_page' isn't an ERR_PTR
fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:795 f2fs_put_page() warn: 'page' isn't an ERR_PTR

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-12-23 10:18:04 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim
4660f9c0fe f2fs: introduce f2fs_balance_fs_bg for some background jobs
This patch merges some background jobs into this new function.

Signed-off-by: Changman Lee <cm224.lee@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-10-25 16:54:38 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim
81eb8d6e28 f2fs: reclaim prefree segments periodically
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>
2013-10-25 16:54:37 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim
dcdfff6527 f2fs: clean up several status-related operations
This patch cleans up improper definitions that update some status information.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-10-25 16:54:08 +09:00
Gu Zheng
7bd59381c8 f2fs: introduce f2fs_kmem_cache_alloc to hide the unfailed, kmem cache allocation
Introduce the unfailed version of kmem_cache_alloc named f2fs_kmem_cache_alloc
to hide the retry routine and make the code a bit cleaner.

v2:
   Fix the wrong use of 'retry' tag pointed out by Gao feng.
   Use more neat code to remove redundant tag suggested by Haicheng Li.

Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-10-22 20:16:02 +09:00
Jin Xu
a57e564d14 f2fs: optimize the victim searching loop slightly
Since the MAX_VICTIM_SEARCH has been enlarged from 20 to 4096,
the victim searching overhead will be increased much than before,
especially for SSR that searches victim for use quiet often.
This patch intends to reduce the overhead a little bit by:
- make the get_gc_cost a inline routine to reduce function call
  overhead
- reduce multiplication and division operations
- reduce unnecessary comparison operation

Signed-off-by: Jin Xu <jinuxstyle@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-09-24 17:45:48 +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
Jaegeuk Kim
de93653fe3 f2fs: reserve the xattr space dynamically
This patch enables the number of direct pointers inside on-disk inode block to
be changed dynamically according to the size of inline xattr space.

The number of direct pointers, ADDRS_PER_INODE, can be changed only if the file
has inline xattr flag.

The number of direct pointers that will be used by inline xattrs is defined as
F2FS_INLINE_XATTR_ADDRS.
Current patch assigns F2FS_INLINE_XATTR_ADDRS to 0 temporarily.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-08-26 20:15:01 +09:00
Jin Xu
a569469e96 f2fs: fix a deadlock in fsync
This patch fixes a deadlock bug that occurs quite often when there are
concurrent write and fsync on a same file.

Following is the simplified call trace when tasks get hung.

fsync thread:
- f2fs_sync_file
 ...
 - f2fs_write_data_pages
 ...
  - update_extent_cache
  ...
   - update_inode
    - wait_on_page_writeback

bdi writeback thread
- __writeback_single_inode
 - f2fs_write_data_pages
  - mutex_lock(sbi->writepages)

The deadlock happens when the fsync thread waits on a inode page that has
been added to the f2fs' cached bio sbi->bio[NODE], and unfortunately,
no one else could be able to submit the cached bio to block layer for
writeback. This is because the fsync thread already hold a sbi->fs_lock and
the sbi->writepages lock, causing the bdi thread being blocked when attempt
to write data pages for the same inode. At the same time, f2fs_gc thread
does not notice the situation and could not help. Even the sync syscall
gets blocked.

To fix it, we could submit the cached bio first before waiting on a inode page
that is being written back.

Signed-off-by: Jin Xu <jinuxstyle@gmail.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: add more cases to use f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-08-06 22:00:36 +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
Gu Zheng
6cc4af5606 f2fs: code cleanup and simplify in func {find/add}_gc_inode
This patch simplifies list operations in find_gc_inode and add_gc_inode.
Just simple code cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: add description]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-07-02 08:48:14 +09:00
Namjae Jeon
b2b3460a94 f2fs: reorganise the function get_victim_by_default
Fix the function get_victim_by_default, where it checks
for the condition  that p.min_segno != NULL_SEGNO as
shown:

if (p.min_segno != NULL_SEGNO)
           goto got_it;

and if above condition is true then

got_it:
        if (p.min_segno != NULL_SEGNO) {

So this condition is being checked twice. Hence move the goto
statement after the if condition so that duplication of condition
check is avoided.

Also this function makes a call to get_max_cost() to compute
the max cost based on the f2fs_sbi_info and victim policy. Since
get_max_cost depends on on three parameters of victim_sel_policy
=> alloc_mode, gc_mode & ofs_unit, once this victim policy is
initialised, these value will not change till the execution
time of get_victim_by_default() & also f2fs_sbi_info structure
parameters will not change.

Hence making calls to get_max_cost() in while loop does not seems to
be a good point. Instead we can call it once in begining and store
the results in local variable, which later can serve our purpose
for comparing the cost with max cost inside the while loop.

Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Kumar <pankaj.km@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-06-06 14:20:46 +09:00
Namjae Jeon
7a267f8d74 f2fs: return proper error from start_gc_thread
when there is an error from kthread_run, then return proper error
rather than returning -ENOMEM.

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>
2013-05-28 15:03:05 +09:00
Namjae Jeon
35b09d82c3 f2fs: push some variables to debug part
Some, counters are needed only for the statistical information
while debugging.
So, those can be controlled using CONFIG_F2FS_STAT_FS,
pushing the usage for few variables under this flag.

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>
2013-05-28 15:03:05 +09:00
Haicheng Li
b743ba78ae f2fs: remove useless #include <linux/proc_fs.h> as we're now using sysfs as debug entry.
Signed-off-by: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-04-30 12:07:32 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim
c718379b6b f2fs: give a chance to merge IOs by IO scheduler
Previously, background GC submits many 4KB read requests to load victim blocks
and/or its (i)node blocks.

...
f2fs_gc : f2fs_readpage: ino = 1, page_index = 0xb61, blkaddr = 0x3b964ed
f2fs_gc : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 499854968 + 8 [0]
f2fs_gc : f2fs_readpage: ino = 1, page_index = 0xb6f, blkaddr = 0x3b964ee
f2fs_gc : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 499854976 + 8 [0]
f2fs_gc : f2fs_readpage: ino = 1, page_index = 0xb79, blkaddr = 0x3b964ef
f2fs_gc : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 499854984 + 8 [0]
...

However, by the fact that many IOs are sequential, we can give a chance to merge
the IOs by IO scheduler.
In order to do that, let's use blk_plug.

...
f2fs_gc : f2fs_iget: ino = 143
f2fs_gc : f2fs_readpage: ino = 143, page_index = 0x1c6, blkaddr = 0x2e6ee
f2fs_gc : f2fs_iget: ino = 143
f2fs_gc : f2fs_readpage: ino = 143, page_index = 0x1c7, blkaddr = 0x2e6ef
<idle> : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1519616 + 8 [0]
<idle> : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1519848 + 8 [0]
<idle> : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1520432 + 96 [0]
<idle> : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1520536 + 104 [0]
<idle> : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1521008 + 112 [0]
<idle> : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1521440 + 152 [0]
<idle> : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1521688 + 144 [0]
<idle> : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1522128 + 192 [0]
<idle> : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1523256 + 328 [0]
...

Note that this issue should be addressed in checkpoint, and some readahead
flows too.

Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-04-26 10:35:10 +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
Namjae Jeon
8e46b3ed11 f2fs: add tracepoints for GC threads
Add tracepoints for tracing the garbage collector
threads in f2fs with status of collection & type.

Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Kumar <pankaj.km@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[Jaegeuk: modify slightly to show information]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-04-23 18:15:10 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim
d64f80473b f2fs: write checkpoint before starting FG_GC
In order to be aware of prefree and free sections during FG_GC, let's start with
write_checkpoint().

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-04-09 18:21:24 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim
399368372e f2fs: introduce a new global lock scheme
In the previous version, f2fs uses global locks according to the usage types,
such as directory operations, block allocation, block write, and so on.

Reference the following lock types in f2fs.h.
enum lock_type {
	RENAME,		/* for renaming operations */
	DENTRY_OPS,	/* for directory operations */
	DATA_WRITE,	/* for data write */
	DATA_NEW,	/* for data allocation */
	DATA_TRUNC,	/* for data truncate */
	NODE_NEW,	/* for node allocation */
	NODE_TRUNC,	/* for node truncate */
	NODE_WRITE,	/* for node write */
	NR_LOCK_TYPE,
};

In that case, we lose the performance under the multi-threading environment,
since every types of operations must be conducted one at a time.

In order to address the problem, let's share the locks globally with a mutex
array regardless of any types.
So, let users grab a mutex and perform their jobs in parallel as much as
possbile.

For this, I propose a new global lock scheme as follows.

0. Data structure
 - f2fs_sb_info -> mutex_lock[NR_GLOBAL_LOCKS]
 - f2fs_sb_info -> node_write

1. mutex_lock_op(sbi)
 - try to get an avaiable lock from the array.
 - returns the index of the gottern lock variable.

2. mutex_unlock_op(sbi, index of the lock)
 - unlock the given index of the lock.

3. mutex_lock_all(sbi)
 - grab all the locks in the array before the checkpoint.

4. mutex_unlock_all(sbi)
 - release all the locks in the array after checkpoint.

5. block_operations()
 - call mutex_lock_all()
 - sync_dirty_dir_inodes()
 - grab node_write
 - sync_node_pages()

Note that,
 the pairs of mutex_lock_op()/mutex_unlock_op() and
 mutex_lock_all()/mutex_unlock_all() should be used together.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-04-09 18:21:18 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim
b74737541c f2fs: avoid race for summary information
In order to do GC more reliably, I'd like to lock the vicitm summary page
until its GC is completed, and also prevent any checkpoint process.

Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-04-03 17:27:51 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim
4ebefc4443 f2fs: check completion of foreground GC
The foreground GCs are triggered under not enough free sections.
So, we should not skip moving valid blocks in the victim segments.

Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-04-03 17:27:50 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim
5ec4e49f9b f2fs: change GC bitmaps to apply the section granularity
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>
2013-04-03 17:27:49 +09:00
Masanari Iida
111d2495a8 f2fs: fix typo in comments
Correct spelling typo in comments

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-03-20 18:30:16 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim
b7250d2d84 f2fs: fix calculation of max. gc cost in the SSR case
In the SSR case, the max gc cost should be the number of pages in a segment.
Otherwise, f2fs is able to fail getting dirty segments frequently for SSR.

In get_victim_by_default() previously,

while(1) {
   ...
   cost = get_gc_cost(); <- cost is between 0 ~ 512.
   ...
   if (cost == get_max_cost(sbi, &p)) <- max cost is UINT_MAX due to GC_CB type
	continue;

   if (nsearched++ >= MAX_VICTIM_SEARCH)
	break;
}

So, if there are a number of fully valid segments in series, f2fs cannot skip
those segments by comparing the cost and max cost of each segment.

Note that, the cost is the number of valid blocks at the time of the last
checkpoint.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-02-12 07:15:02 +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
25718423ea f2fs: mark gc_thread as NULL when thread creation is failed
When gc thread creation is failed, mark gc_thread as NULL to avoid
crash while trying to stop invalid thread in stop_gc_thread->kthread_stop.
Instead make it return from:
	if (!gc_th)
       return;

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
Changman Lee
48600e44c1 f2fs: remove unnecessary gc option check and balance_fs
1. If f2fs is mounted with background_gc_off option, checking
    BG_GC is not redundant.
 2. f2fs_balance_fs is checked in f2fs_gc, so this is also redundant.

Signed-off-by: Changman Lee <cm224.lee@samsung.com>
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
d4686d56ec f2fs: avoid balanc_fs during evict_inode
1. Background

Previously, if f2fs tries to move data blocks of an *evicting* inode during the
cleaning process, it stops the process incompletely and then restarts the whole
process, since it needs a locked inode to grab victim data pages in its address
space. In order to get a locked inode, iget_locked() by f2fs_iget() is normally
used, but, it waits if the inode is on freeing.

So, here is a deadlock scenario.
1. f2fs_evict_inode()       <- inode "A"
  2. f2fs_balance_fs()
    3. f2fs_gc()
      4. gc_data_segment()
        5. f2fs_iget()      <- inode "A" too!

If step #1 and #5 treat a same inode "A", step #5 would fall into deadlock since
the inode "A" is on freeing. In order to resolve this, f2fs_iget_nowait() which
skips __wait_on_freeing_inode() was introduced in step #5, and stops f2fs_gc()
to complete f2fs_evict_inode().

1. f2fs_evict_inode()           <- inode "A"
  2. f2fs_balance_fs()
    3. f2fs_gc()
      4. gc_data_segment()
        5. f2fs_iget_nowait()   <- inode "A", then stop f2fs_gc() w/ -ENOENT

2. Problem and Solution

In the above scenario, however, f2fs cannot finish f2fs_evict_inode() only if:
 o there are not enough free sections, and
 o f2fs_gc() tries to move data blocks of the *evicting* inode repeatedly.

So, the final solution is to use f2fs_iget() and remove f2fs_balance_fs() in
f2fs_evict_inode().
The f2fs_evict_inode() actually truncates all the data and node blocks, which
means that it doesn't produce any dirty node pages accordingly.
So, we don't need to do f2fs_balance_fs() in practical.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-02-12 07:15:01 +09:00
Namjae Jeon
3786dfdf4f f2fs: avoid redundant call to has_not_enough_free_secs in f2fs_gc
After doing a write_checkpoint from garbage collection path if there is still
need to do more garbage collection, gc_more label is used to jump and start
the process again. And in that process, first step before getting victim is to
check if there are not enough free sections, which is already done before
doing a jump to gc_more. We can avoid the redundant call to check free
sections, by checking the gc_type flag which will remain FG_GC(value 1) under
this condition.

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 07:15:00 +09:00
Changman Lee
d6212a5f18 f2fs: add un/freeze_fs into super_operations
This patch supports ioctl FIFREEZE and FITHAW to snapshot filesystem.
Before calling f2fs_freeze, all writers would be suspended and sync_fs
would be completed. So no f2fs has to do something.
Just background gc operation should be skipped due to generate dirty
nodes and data until unfreeze.

Signed-off-by: Changman Lee <cm224.lee@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-02-12 07:15:00 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim
9af45ef5ab f2fs: add comments of start_bidx_of_node
The caller of start_bidx_of_node() should give proper node offsets which
point only direct node blocks. Otherwise, it is a caller's bug.
This patch adds comments to make it clear.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-01-22 10:48:59 +09:00
Namjae Jeon
6e6093a8f1 f2fs: add __init to functions in init_f2fs_fs
Add __init to functions in init_f2fs_fs for code consistency.

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>
2013-01-22 10:48:38 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim
408e937561 f2fs: revisit the f2fs_gc flow
I'd like to revisit the f2fs_gc flow and rewrite as follows.

1. In practical, the nGC parameter of f2fs_gc is meaningless. So, let's
  remove it.
2. Background GC marks victim blocks as dirty one at a time.
3. Foreground GC should do cleaning job until acquiring enough free
  sections. Afterwards, it needs to do checkpoint.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-01-10 07:42:59 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim
2b50638dec f2fs: clean up unused variables and return values
This patch cleans up a couple of unnecessary codes related to unused variables
and return values.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2012-12-28 11:27:52 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim
ce19a5d432 f2fs: clean up the start_bidx_of_node function
This patch also resolves the following warning reported by kbuild test robot.

fs/f2fs/gc.c: In function 'start_bidx_of_node':
fs/f2fs/gc.c:453:21: warning: 'bidx' may be used uninitialized in this function

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2012-12-28 11:27:52 +09:00
Namjae Jeon
1042d60f91 f2fs: remove unneeded initialization
No need to initialize  "struct f2fs_gc_kthread *gc_th = NULL",
as gc_th = NULL, will be taken care by the return values of kmalloc().
And fix codes in other places.

Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@samsung.com>
2012-12-11 13:43:44 +09:00