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>
Previously, we experience bio traces as follows when running simple sequential
write test.
f2fs_do_submit_bio: type = NODE, io = no sync, sector = 500104928, size = 4K
f2fs_do_submit_bio: type = NODE, io = no sync, sector = 499922208, size = 368K
f2fs_do_submit_bio: type = NODE, io = no sync, sector = 499914752, size = 140K
-> total 512K
The first one is to write an indirect node block, and the others are to write
direct node blocks.
The reason why there are two separate bios for direct node blocks is:
0. initial state
------------------ ------------------
| | |xxxxxxxx |
------------------ ------------------
1. write 368K
------------------ ------------------
| | |xxxxxxxxWWWWWWWW|
------------------ ------------------
2. write 140K
------------------ ------------------
|WWWWWWW | |xxxxxxxxWWWWWWWW|
------------------ ------------------
This is because f2fs_write_node_pages tries to write just 512K totally, so that
we can lose the chance to merge more bios nicely.
After this patch is applied, we can get the following bio traces.
f2fs_do_submit_bio: type = NODE, io = no sync, sector = 500103168, size = 8K
f2fs_do_submit_bio: type = NODE, io = no sync, sector = 500111368, size = 4K
f2fs_do_submit_bio: type = NODE, io = no sync, sector = 500107272, size = 512K
f2fs_do_submit_bio: type = NODE, io = no sync, sector = 500108296, size = 512K
f2fs_do_submit_bio: type = NODE, io = no sync, sector = 500109320, size = 500K
And finally, we can improve the sequential write performance,
from 458.775 MB/s to 479.945 MB/s on SSD.
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>
The f2fs_set_link updates its parent inode number, so we should sync this to
the inode block.
Otherwise, the data can be lost after sudden-power-off.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
0. modified inode structure
--------------------------------------
metadata (e.g., i_mtime, i_ctime, etc)
--------------------------------------
direct pointers [0 ~ 873]
inline xattrs (200 bytes by default)
indirect pointers [0 ~ 4]
--------------------------------------
node footer
--------------------------------------
1. setxattr flow
- read_all_xattrs copies all the xattrs from inline and xattr node block.
- handle xattr entries
- write_all_xattrs copies modified xattrs into inline and xattr node block.
2. getxattr flow
- read_all_xattrs copies all the xattrs from inline and xattr node block.
- check target entries
3. Usage
# mount -t f2fs -o inline_xattr $DEV $MNT
Once mounted with the inline_xattr option, f2fs marks all the newly created
files to reserve an amount of inline xattr space explicitly inside the inode
block. Without the mount option, f2fs will not touch any existing files and
newly created files as well.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
The __find_xattr is to search the wanted xattr entry starting from the
base_addr.
If not found, the returned entry is the last empty xattr entry that can be
allocated newly.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
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>
This patch adds basic inode flags for inline xattrs, F2FS_INLINE_XATTR,
and add a mount option, inline_xattr, which is enabled when xattr is set.
If the mount option is enabled, all the files are marked with the inline_xattrs
flag.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Fix to return -ENOMEM in the kset create and add error handling
case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.
Introduced by commit b59d0bae6c.
(f2fs: add sysfs support for controlling the gc_thread)
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Acked-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: merge the patch with previous modification]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch removes a false-alaramed BUG_ON.
The previous BUG_ON condition didn't cover the following true scenario.
In f2fs_add_link, 1) get_new_data_page gives an uptodate page successfully,
and then, 2) init_inode_metadata returns -ENOSPC.
At this moment, a new clean data page is remained in the page cache, but its
block address still indicates NEW_ADDR.
After then, even if sync is called, this clean data page cannot be written to
the disk due to the clean state.
So this means that get_lock_data_page should make a new empty page when its
block address is NEW_ADDR and its page is not uptodated.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
When any of the caches create fails in init_f2fs_fs(), the other caches which are
create successful should be free.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Hongjiang <zhaohongjiang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
An error "label at end of compound statement" will occur if CONFIG_F2FS_STAT_FS
disabled.
fs/f2fs/segment.c:556:1: error: label at end of compound statement
So clean up the 'out' label to fix it.
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
In f2fs_write_inode, updating inode after f2fs_balance_fs is not
a optimized way in the case that f2fs_gc is performed ahead. The
inode page will be unnecessarily written out twice, one of which
is in f2fs_gc->...->sync_node_pages and the other is in
update_inode_page.
Let's update the inode page in prior to f2fs_balance_fs to avoid
this.
To reproduce it,
$ touch file (before this step, should make the device need f2fs_gc)
$ sync (or wait the bdi to write dirty inode)
Signed-off-by: Jin Xu <jinuxstyle@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
alloc_page() returns a NULL on failure, it never returns an ERR_PTR.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Previously, f2fs_setxattr assigns i_xattr_nid in the inode page inconsistently.
The scenario is:
= Thread 1 = = Thread 2 = = fi->i_xattr_nid = = on-disk nid =
f2fs_setxattr 0 0
new_node_page X 0
sync_inode_page X X
checkpoint X X -.
grab_cache_page X X |
--> allocate a new xattr node block or -ENOSPC <----------------'
At this moment, the checkpoint stores inconsistent data where the inode has
i_xattr_nid but actual xattr node block is not allocated yet.
So, we should assign the real i_xattr_nid only after its xattr node block is
allocated.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Previously xattr node blocks are stored to the COLD_NODE log, which means that
our roll-forward mechanism doesn't recover the xattr node blocks at all.
Only the direct node blocks in the WARM_NODE log can be recovered.
So, let's resolve the issue simply by conducting checkpoint during fsync when a
file has a modified xattr node block.
This approach is able to degrade the performance, but normally the checkpoint
overhead is shown at the initial fsync call after the xattr entry changes.
Once the checkpoint is done, no additional overhead would be occurred.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch fixes the use of XATTR_NODE_OFFSET.
o The offset should not use several MSB bits which are used by marking node
blocks.
o IS_DNODE should handle XATTR_NODE_OFFSET to avoid potential abnormality
during the fsync call.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch should resolve the following error reported by kbuild test robot.
All error/warnings:
In file included from fs/f2fs/dir.c:13:0:
>> fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:435:17: error: field 's_kobj' has incomplete type
struct kobject s_kobj;
The failure was caused by missing the kobject header file in dir.c.
So, this patch move the header file to the right location, f2fs.h.
CC: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
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>
This code is being used for nobh_write_end() function.
But since now f2fs_write_end function is added so
there is no need for this code.
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>
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>
This kfree() is no longer needed after a79dc083d7 "f2fs: move
bio_private allocation out of f2fs_bio_alloc()". The "bio->bi_private"
is NULL here so it's a no-op.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch fixes mishandling of the sbi->n_orphans variable.
If users request lots of f2fs_unlink(), check_orphan_space() could be contended.
In such the case, sbi->n_orphans can be read incorrectly so that f2fs_unlink()
would fall into the wrong state which results in the failure of
add_orphan_inode().
So, let's increment sbi->n_orphans virtually prior to the actual orphan inode
stuffs. After that, let's release sbi->n_orphans by calling release_orphan_inode
or remove_orphan_inode.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
bio->bi_private is not always needed. As in the reading data path,
end_read_io does not need bio_private for further using, so moving
bio_private allocation out of f2fs_bio_alloc(). Alloc it in the
submit_write_page(), and ignore it in the f2fs_readpage().
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
As we remove the target single node, so list_for_each is enought, in order to
clean up, we use list_for_each_entry instead.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
For string without format specifiers, using seq_puts()/seq_putc()
instead of seq_printf().
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
As similar as the i_pino fix, i_name also should be fixed when i_nlink is 1.
The errorneous scenario is like this.
1. touch test1
2. link test1 test2
3. unlink test2
4. fsync test1
After this, i_name should be test1.
CC: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
The error is reproducible by:
0. mkfs.f2fs /dev/sdb1 & mount
1. touch test1
2. touch test2
3. mv test1 test2
4. umount
5. dumpt.f2fs -i 4 /dev/sdb1
After this, when we retrieve the inode->i_name of test2 by dump.f2fs, we get
test1 instead of test2.
This is because f2fs didn't update the file name during the f2fs_rename.
So, this patch fixes that.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Introduce help function F2FS_NODE() to simplify the conversion of node_page to
f2fs_node.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Add a help func F2FS_STAT() to get the f2fs_stat_info.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
In order to support SQLite that uses fdatasync instead of fsync, we should
guarantee the data requested by fdatasync can be recovered after sudden-power-
off.
So, let's remove the fdatasync condition in f2fs_sync_file.
Otherwise, we can restore the data after sudden-power-off due to nonexistence
of any fsync mark'ed node blocks.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
In the previous Al Viro's readdir patch set, there occurs a bug when
running
xfstest: 006 as follows.
[Error output]
alpha size = 4, name length = 6, total files = 4096, nproc=1
1023 files created
rm: cannot remove `/mnt/f2fs/permname.15150/a': Directory not empty
[Correct output]
alpha size = 4, name length = 6, total files = 4096, nproc=1
4097 files created
This bug is due to the misupdate of directory position in ctx.
So, this patch fixes this.
[AV: fixed a braino]
CC: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
If user requests many data writes and fsync together, the last updated i_size
should be stored to the inode block consistently.
But, previous write_end just marks the inode as dirty and doesn't update its
metadata into its inode block.
After that, fsync just writes the inode block with newly updated data index
excluding inode metadata updates.
So, this patch introduces write_end in which updates inode block too when the
i_size is changed.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
As destroy_fsync_dnodes() is a simple list-cleanup func, so delete the unused
and unrelated f2fs_sb_info argument of it.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch removes check_prefree_segments initially designed to enhance the
performance by narrowing the range of LBA usage across the whole block device.
When allocating a new segment, previous f2fs tries to find proper prefree
segments, and then, if finds a segment, it reuses the segment for further
data or node block allocation.
However, I found that this was totally wrong approach since the prefree segments
have several data or node blocks that will be used by the roll-forward mechanism
operated after sudden-power-off.
Let's assume the following scenario.
/* write 8MB with fsync */
for (i = 0; i < 2048; i++) {
offset = i * 4096;
write(fd, offset, 4KB);
fsync(fd);
}
In this case, naive segment allocation sequence will be like:
data segment: x, x+1, x+2, x+3
node segment: y, y+1, y+2, y+3.
But, if we can reuse prefree segments, the sequence can be like:
data segment: x, x+1, y, y+1
node segment: y, y+1, y+2, y+3.
Because, y, y+1, and y+2 became prefree segments one by one, and those are
reused by data allocation.
After conducting this workload, we should consider how to recover the latest
inode with its data.
If we reuse the prefree segments such as y or y+1, we lost the old node blocks
so that f2fs even cannot start roll-forward recovery.
Therefore, I suggest that we should remove reusing prefree segments.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
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>
Optimize the while loop condition
Since this condition will always be true and while loop will
be terminated by the following condition in code:
if (segno >= TOTAL_SEGS(sbi))
break;
Hence we can replace the while loop condition with while(1)
instead of always checking for segno to be less than Total segs.
Also we do not need to use TOTAL_SEGS() everytime. We can store
this value in a local variable since this value is constant.
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>
This patch should fix the following bug reported by kbuild test robot.
fs/f2fs/recovery.c:233:33: sparse: incorrect type in assignment
(different base types)
parse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)
>> recovery.c:233: sparse: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
recovery.c:233: expected unsigned int [unsigned] [assigned] ofs_in_node
recovery.c:233: got restricted __le16 [assigned] [usertype] ofs_in_node
>> recovery.c:238: sparse: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
recovery.c:238: expected unsigned int [unsigned] ofs_in_node
recovery.c:238: got restricted __le16 [assigned] [usertype] ofs_in_node
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
While calculating CRC for the checkpoint block, we use __u32, but when storing
the crc value to the disk, we use __le32.
Let's fix the inconsistency.
Reported-and-Tested-by: Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@advaoptical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Add the f2fs_remount function call which will be used
during the filesystem remounting. This function
will help us to change the mount options specific to
f2fs.
Also modify the f2fs background_gc mount option, which
will allow the user to dynamically trun on/off the
garbage collection in f2fs based on the background_gc
value. If background_gc=on, Garbage collection will
be turned off & if background_gc=off, Garbage collection
will be truned on.
By default the garbage collection is on in f2fs.
Change Log:
v2: Incorporated the review comments by Gu Zheng.
Removing the restore part for VFS flags
Updating comments with proper flag conditions
Display GC background option as ON/OFF
Revised conditions to stop GC in case of remount
v1: Initial changes for adding remount_fs callback
support.
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 /** with /* for the coding style]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
If a file is linked, f2fs loose its parent inode number so that fsync calls
for the linked file should do checkpoint all the time.
But, if we can recover its parent inode number after the checkpoint, we can
adjust roll-forward mechanism for the further fsync calls, which is able to
improve the fsync performance significatly.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Jin Xu