Previously, f2fs tries to reorganize the dirty nat entries into multiple sets
according to its nid ranges. This can improve the flushing nat pages, however,
if there are a lot of cached nat entries, it becomes a bottleneck.
This patch introduces a new set management flow by removing dirty nat list and
adding a series of set operations when the nat entry becomes dirty.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch revisited whole the recovery information during the f2fs_sync_file.
In this patch, there are three information to make a decision.
a) IS_CHECKPOINTED, /* is it checkpointed before? */
b) HAS_FSYNCED_INODE, /* is the inode fsynced before? */
c) HAS_LAST_FSYNC, /* has the latest node fsync mark? */
And, the scenarios for our rule are based on:
[Term] F: fsync_mark, D: dentry_mark
1. inode(x) | CP | inode(x) | dnode(F)
2. inode(x) | CP | inode(F) | dnode(F)
3. inode(x) | CP | dnode(F) | inode(x) | inode(F)
4. inode(x) | CP | dnode(F) | inode(F)
5. CP | inode(x) | dnode(F) | inode(DF)
6. CP | inode(DF) | dnode(F)
7. CP | dnode(F) | inode(DF)
8. CP | dnode(F) | inode(x) | inode(DF)
For example, #3, the three conditions should be changed as follows.
inode(x) | CP | dnode(F) | inode(x) | inode(F)
a) x o o o o
b) x x x x o
c) x o o x o
If f2fs_sync_file stops ------^,
it should write inode(F) --------------^
So, the need_inode_block_update should return true, since
c) get_nat_flag(e, HAS_LAST_FSYNC), is false.
For example, #8,
CP | alloc | dnode(F) | inode(x) | inode(DF)
a) o x x x x
b) x x x o
c) o o x o
If f2fs_sync_file stops -------^,
it should write inode(DF) --------------^
Note that, the roll-forward policy should follow this rule, which means,
if there are any missing blocks, we doesn't need to recover that inode.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch introduces a flag in the nat entry structure to merge various
information such as checkpointed and fsync_done marks.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
The nm_i->fcnt checking is executed before spin_lock, so if another
thread delete the last free_nid from the list, the wrong nid may be
gotten. So fix the race condition by moving the nm_i->fnct checking
into spin_lock.
Signed-off-by: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
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.
In this patch we merge dirty entries located in same NAT block to nat entry set,
and linked all set to list, sorted ascending order by entries' count of set.
Later we flush entries in sparse set into journal as many as we can, and then
flush merged entries to disk. In this way we can not only gain in performance,
but also save lifetime of flash device.
In my testing environment, it shows this patch can help to reduce NAT block
writes obviously. In hard disk test case: cost time of fsstress is stablely
reduced by about 5%.
1. virtual machine + hard disk:
fsstress -p 20 -n 200 -l 5
node num cp count nodes/cp
based 4599.6 1803.0 2.551
patched 2714.6 1829.6 1.483
2. virtual machine + 32g micro SD card:
fsstress -p 20 -n 200 -l 1 -w -f chown=0 -f creat=4 -f dwrite=0
-f fdatasync=4 -f fsync=4 -f link=0 -f mkdir=4 -f mknod=4 -f rename=5
-f rmdir=5 -f symlink=0 -f truncate=4 -f unlink=5 -f write=0 -S
node num cp count nodes/cp
based 84.5 43.7 1.933
patched 49.2 40.0 1.23
Our latency of merging op shows not bad when handling extreme case like:
merging a great number of dirty nats:
latency(ns) dirty nat count
3089219 24922
5129423 27422
4000250 24523
change log from v1:
o fix wrong logic in add_nat_entry when grab a new nat entry set.
o swith to create slab cache in create_node_manager_caches.
o use GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_NOFS to avoid potential long latency.
change log from v2:
o make comment position more appropriate suggested by Jaegeuk Kim.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
fix the following checkpatch warning:
WARNING: do {} while (0) macros should not be semicolon terminated
Signed-off-by: Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch splits grab_cache_page_write_begin into grab_cache_page and
wait_on_page_writeback for node pages.
This patch intends to enhance the latency to get node pages by alleviating
unnecessary wait_on_page_writeback.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
If so many dirty dentry blocks are cached, not reached to the flush condition,
we should fall into livelock in balance_dirty_pages.
So, let's consider the mem size for the condition.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch introduce raw_nat_from_node_info() to simplfy some codes, and also
use exist function node_info_from_raw_nat() to do the same job.
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>
The NM_WOUT_THRESHOLD is now obsolete since f2fs starts to control on a basis
of the memory footprint.
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>
The nat cache entry maintains a status whether it is checkpointed or not.
So, if a new cache entry is loaded from the last checkpoint,
nat_entry->checkpointed should be true.
If the cache entry is modified as being dirty, nat_entry->checkpoint should
be false.
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>
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>
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>
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>
There are various functions with common code which could be separated
out to make common routines. So, made new routines and in order to
retain the same call path and no major changes, written some macros
to access those routines.
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>
If (ofs % (NIDS_PER_BLOCK + 1) == 0), the node is an indirect node block.
Signed-off-by: Zhihui Zhang <zzhsuny@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
In get_node_page, we do not need to call lock_page all the time.
If the node page is cached as uptodate,
1. grab_cache_page locks the page,
2. read_node_page unlocks the page, and
3. lock_page is called for further process.
Let's avoid this.
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
When we recover fsync'ed data after power-off-recovery, we should guarantee
that any parent inode number should be correct for each direct inode blocks.
So, let's make the following rules.
- The fsync should do checkpoint to all the inodes that were experienced hard
links.
- So, the only normal files can be recovered by roll-forward.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@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 patch should resolve the bugs reported by the sparse tool.
Initial reports were written by "kbuild test robot" managed by fengguang.wu.
In my local machines, I've tested also by running:
> make C=2 CF="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__"
Accordingly, I've found lots of warnings and bugs related to the endian
conversion. And I've fixed all at this moment.
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
Huang Ying
Chao Yu
Zhang Zhen
Jaegeuk Kim
Gu Zheng
Namjae Jeon
Zhihui Zhang