Some storage devices show relatively high latencies to complete cache_flush
commands, even though their normal IO speed is prettry much high. In such
the case, it needs to merge cache_flush commands as much as possible to avoid
issuing them redundantly.
So, this patch introduces a mount option, "-o flush_merge", to mitigate such
the overhead.
If this option is enabled by user, F2FS merges the cache_flush commands and then
issues just one cache_flush on behalf of them. Once the single command is
finished, F2FS sends a completion signal to all the pending threads.
Note that, this option can be used under a workload consisting of very intensive
concurrent fsync calls, while the storage handles cache_flush commands slowly.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch introduce is_merged_page() to check whether current page is merged
in f2fs bio cache. When page is not in cache, we can avoid submitting bio cache,
resulting in having more chance to merge pages.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
If multiple redundant fsync calls are triggered, we don't need to write its
node pages with fsync mark continuously.
So, this patch adds FI_NEED_FSYNC to track whether the latest node block is
written with the fsync mark or not.
If the mark was set, a new fsync doesn't need to write a node block.
Otherwise, we should do a new node block with the mark for roll-forward
recovery.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch introduces fi->i_sem to protect fi's info that includes xattr_ver,
pino, i_nlink.
This enables to remove i_mutex during f2fs_sync_file, resulting in performance
improvement when a number of fsync calls are triggered from many concurrent
threads.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch introduces ram_thresh, a sysfs entry, which controls the memory
footprint used by the free nid list and the nat cache.
Previously, the free nid list was controlled by MAX_FREE_NIDS, while the nat
cache was managed by NM_WOUT_THRESHOLD.
However, this approach cannot be applied dynamically according to the system.
So, this patch adds ram_thresh that users can specify the threshold, which is
in order of 1 / 1024.
For example, if the total ram size is 4GB and the value is set to 10 by default,
f2fs tries to control the number of free nids and nat caches not to consume over
10 * (4GB / 1024) = 10MB.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch introduces a help function f2fs_has_xattr_block for better
readability.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch introduces a help function f2fs_has_inline_xattr for better
readability.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch use existing macro F2FS_INODE/NEXT_FREE_BLKADDR to clean up some
codes.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
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>
This patch adds an sysfs entry to control dir_level used by the large directory.
The description of this entry is:
dir_level This parameter controls the directory level to
support large directory. If a directory has a
number of files, it can reduce the file lookup
latency by increasing this dir_level value.
Otherwise, it needs to decrease this value to
reduce the space overhead. The default value is 0.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch introduces an i_dir_level field to support large directory.
Previously, f2fs maintains multi-level hash tables to find a dentry quickly
from a bunch of chiild dentries in a directory, and the hash tables consist of
the following tree structure as below.
In Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt,
----------------------
A : bucket
B : block
N : MAX_DIR_HASH_DEPTH
----------------------
level #0 | A(2B)
|
level #1 | A(2B) - A(2B)
|
level #2 | A(2B) - A(2B) - A(2B) - A(2B)
. | . . . .
level #N/2 | A(2B) - A(2B) - A(2B) - A(2B) - A(2B) - ... - A(2B)
. | . . . .
level #N | A(4B) - A(4B) - A(4B) - A(4B) - A(4B) - ... - A(4B)
But, if we can guess that a directory will handle a number of child files,
we don't need to traverse the tree from level #0 to #N all the time.
Since the lower level tables contain relatively small number of dentries,
the miss ratio of the target dentry is likely to be high.
In order to avoid that, we can configure the hash tables sparsely from level #0
like this.
level #0 | A(2B) - A(2B) - A(2B) - A(2B)
level #1 | A(2B) - A(2B) - A(2B) - A(2B) - A(2B) - ... - A(2B)
. | . . . .
level #N/2 | A(2B) - A(2B) - A(2B) - A(2B) - A(2B) - ... - A(2B)
. | . . . .
level #N | A(4B) - A(4B) - A(4B) - A(4B) - A(4B) - ... - A(4B)
With this structure, we can skip the ineffective tree searches in lower level
hash tables.
This patch adds just a facility for this by introducing i_dir_level in
f2fs_inode.
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>
This patch introduces a radix tree for the list of free_nids, which enhances
the performance on free nid management.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Introduce help macro on_build_free_nids() which just uses build_lock
to judge whether the building free nid is going, so that we can remove
the on_build_free_nids field from f2fs_sb_info.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: remove an unnecessary white line removal]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch shows the counts of checkpoint in f2fs' status.
Signed-off-by: Changman Lee <cm224.lee@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch help us to cleanup the readahead code by merging ra_{sit,nat}_pages
function into ra_meta_pages.
Additionally the new function is used to readahead cp block in
recover_orphan_inodes.
Change log from v1:
o fix a deadloop bug pointed by Jaegeuk Kim.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch modifies the use of bi_private to remove pointer chasing for sbi.
Previously, we had a bi_private structure, but it needs memory allocation.
So this patch uses bi_private by the sbi pointer and adds a completion pointer
into the sbi.
This can achieve no memory allocation and nice use of the bi_private.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
If a new xattr node page was allocated and its inode is fsynced, we should
recover the xattr node page during the roll-forward process after power-cut.
But, previously, f2fs didn't handle that case, resulting in kernel panic as
follows reported by Tom Li.
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc9001c861a98
IP: [<ffffffffa0295236>] check_index_in_prev_nodes+0x86/0x2d0 [f2fs]
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff815ece9b>] ? printk+0x48/0x4a
[<ffffffffa029626a>] recover_fsync_data+0xdca/0xf50 [f2fs]
[<ffffffffa02873ae>] f2fs_fill_super+0x92e/0x970 [f2fs]
[<ffffffff8112c9f8>] mount_bdev+0x1b8/0x200
[<ffffffffa0286a80>] ? f2fs_remount+0x130/0x130 [f2fs]
[<ffffffffa0285e40>] f2fs_mount+0x10/0x20 [f2fs]
[<ffffffff8112d4de>] mount_fs+0x3e/0x1b0
[<ffffffff810ef4eb>] ? __alloc_percpu+0xb/0x10
[<ffffffff8114761f>] vfs_kern_mount+0x6f/0x120
[<ffffffff811497b9>] do_mount+0x259/0xa90
[<ffffffff810ead1d>] ? memdup_user+0x3d/0x80
[<ffffffff810eadb3>] ? strndup_user+0x53/0x70
[<ffffffff8114a2c9>] SyS_mount+0x89/0xd0
[<ffffffff815feae2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
This patch adds a recovery function of xattr node pages.
Reported-by: Tom Li <biergaizi@members.fsf.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
In order to make fs consistency, update_inode_page should not be failed all
the time. Otherwise, it is possible to lose some metadata in the inode like
a link count.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
"Assorted stuff; the biggest pile here is Christoph's ACL series. Plus
assorted cleanups and fixes all over the place...
There will be another pile later this week"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (43 commits)
__dentry_path() fixes
vfs: Remove second variable named error in __dentry_path
vfs: Is mounted should be testing mnt_ns for NULL or error.
Fix race when checking i_size on direct i/o read
hfsplus: remove can_set_xattr
nfsd: use get_acl and ->set_acl
fs: remove generic_acl
nfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure for v3 Posix ACLs
gfs2: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
jfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
xfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
reiserfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
ocfs2: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
jffs2: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
hfsplus: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
f2fs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
ext2/3/4: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
btrfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
fs: make posix_acl_create more useful
fs: make posix_acl_chmod more useful
...
f2fs has some weird mode bit handling, so still using the old
chmod code for now.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This patch adds NODE_MAPPING which is similar as META_MAPPING introduced by
Gu Zheng.
Cc: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Introduce help function META_MAPPING() to get the cache meta blocks'
address space.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
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>
With the 2 previous changes, all the long time operations are moved out
of the protection region, so here we can use spinlock rather than mutex
(orphan_inode_mutex) for lower overhead.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
"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>
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>
When considering a bunch of data writes with very frequent fsync calls, we
are able to think the following performance regression.
N: Node IO, D: Data IO, IO scheduler: cfq
Issue pending IOs
D1 D2 D3 D4
D1 D2 D3 D4 N1
D2 D3 D4 N1 N2
N1 D3 D4 N2 D1
--> N1 can be selected by cfq becase of the same priority of N and D.
Then D3 and D4 would be delayed, resuling in performance degradation.
So, when processing the fsync call, it'd better give higher priority to data IOs
than node IOs by assigning WRITE and WRITE_SYNC respectively.
This patch improves the random wirte performance with frequent fsync calls by up
to 10%.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch adds a inline_data recovery routine with the following policy.
[prev.] [next] of inline_data flag
o o -> recover inline_data
o x -> remove inline_data, and then recover data blocks
x o -> remove inline_data, and then recover inline_data
x x -> recover data blocks
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch adds the number of inline_data files into the status information.
Note that the number is reset whenever the filesystem is newly mounted.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Change log from v1:
o handle NULL pointer of grab_cache_page_write_begin() pointed by Chao Yu.
This patch refactors f2fs_convert_inline_data to check a couple of conditions
internally for deciding whether it needs to convert inline_data or not.
So, the new f2fs_convert_inline_data initially checks:
1) f2fs_has_inline_data(), and
2) the data size to be changed.
If the inode has inline_data but the size to fill is less than MAX_INLINE_DATA,
then we don't need to convert the inline_data with data allocation.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Functions to implement inline data read/write, and move inline data to
normal data block when file size exceeds inline data limitation.
Signed-off-by: Huajun Li <huajun.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Weihong Xu <weihong.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Previously, we need to calculate the max orphan num when we try to acquire an
orphan inode, but it's a stable value since the super block was inited. So
converting it to a field of f2fs_sb_info and use it directly when needed seems
a better choose.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch introduces F2FS_INODE that returns struct f2fs_inode * from the inode
page.
By using this macro, we can remove unnecessary casting codes like below.
struct f2fs_inode *ri = &F2FS_NODE(inode_page)->i;
-> struct f2fs_inode *ri = F2FS_INODE(inode_page);
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Update several comments:
1. use f2fs_{un}lock_op install of mutex_{un}lock_op.
2. update comment of get_data_block().
3. update description of node offset.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
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>
Previously, f2fs doesn't support direct IOs with high performance, which throws
every write requests via the buffered write path, resulting in highly
performance degradation due to memory opeations like copy_from_user.
This patch introduces a new direct IO path in which every write requests are
processed by generic blockdev_direct_IO() with enhanced get_block function.
The get_data_block() in f2fs handles:
1. if original data blocks are allocates, then give them to blockdev.
2. otherwise,
a. preallocate requested block addresses
b. do not use extent cache for better performance
c. give the block addresses to blockdev
This policy induces that:
- new allocated data are sequentially written to the disk
- updated data are randomly written to the disk.
- f2fs gives consistency on its file meta, not file data.
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
The recover_orphan_inodes() returns no error all the time, so we don't need to
check its errors.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: add description]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
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>
Add new inode flags F2FS_INLINE_DATA and FI_INLINE_DATA to indicate
whether the inode has inline data.
Inline data makes use of inode block's data indices region to save small
file. Currently there are 923 data indices in an inode block. Since
inline xattr has made use of the last 50 indices to save its data, there
are 873 indices left which can be used for inline data. When
FI_INLINE_DATA is set, the layout of inode block's indices region is
like below:
+-----------------+
| | Reserved. reserve_new_block() will make use of
| i_addr[0] | i_addr[0] when we need to reserve a new data block
| | to convert inline data into regular one's.
|-----------------|
| | Used by inline data. A file whose size is less than
| i_addr[1~872] | 3488 bytes(~3.4k) and doesn't reserve extra
| | blocks by fallocate() can be saved here.
|-----------------|
| |
| i_addr[873~922] | Reserved for inline xattr
| |
+-----------------+
Signed-off-by: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Huajun Li <huajun.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Weihong Xu <weihong.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Jaegeuk Kim
Chao Yu
Gu Zheng
Changman Lee
Linus Torvalds
Christoph Hellwig
Chris Fries
Yuan Zhong
Huajun Li
Fan Li