BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c, branch dev-4.4

f2fs: support lower priority asynchronous readahead in ra_meta_pages

2015-10-12T21:03:15+00:00

Now, we use ra_meta_pages to reads continuous physical blocks as much as possible to improve performance of following reads. However, ra_meta_pages uses a synchronous readahead approach by submitting bio with READ, as READ is with high priority, it can not be used in the case of preloading blocks, and it's not sure when these RAed pages will be used. This patch supports asynchronous readahead in ra_meta_pages by tagging bio with READA flag in order to allow preloading. Signed-off-by: Chao Yu Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: don't tag REQ_META for temporary non-meta pages

2015-10-12T21:01:46+00:00

In recovery or checkpoint flow, we grab pages temperarily in meta inode's mapping for caching temperary data, actually, datas in these pages were not meta data of f2fs, but still we tag them with REQ_META flag. However, lower device like eMMC may do some optimization for data of such type. So in order to avoid wrong optimization, we'd better remove such flag for temperary non-meta pages. Signed-off-by: Chao Yu Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: merge meta writes as many possible

2015-10-09T23:20:57+00:00

This patch tries to merge IOs as many as possible when background flusher conducts flushing the dirty meta pages. [Before] ... 2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 124320, size = 4096 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 124560, size = 32768 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 95720, size = 987136 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 123928, size = 4096 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 123944, size = 8192 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 123968, size = 45056 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 124064, size = 4096 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 97648, size = 1007616 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 123776, size = 8192 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 123800, size = 32768 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 124624, size = 4096 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 99616, size = 921600 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 123608, size = 4096 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 123624, size = 77824 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 123792, size = 4096 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 123864, size = 32768 ... [After] ... f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 92168, size = 892928 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 93912, size = 753664 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 95384, size = 716800 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 96784, size = 712704 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 104160, size = 364544 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 104872, size = 356352 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 105568, size = 278528 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 106112, size = 319488 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 106736, size = 258048 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 107240, size = 270336 f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 107768, size = 180224 ... Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: introduce a periodic checkpoint flow

2015-10-09T23:20:57+00:00

This patch introduces a periodic checkpoint feature. Note that, this is not enforcing to conduct checkpoints very strictly in terms of trigger timing, instead just hope to help user experiences. The default value is 60 seconds. Reviewed-by: Chao Yu Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: check end_io for metapages before making next checkpoint blocks

2015-10-09T23:20:51+00:00

This patch avoids to produce new checkpoint blocks before the previous meta pages were written completely. Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: use __GFP_NOFAIL to avoid infinite loop

2015-08-24T16:37:21+00:00

__GFP_NOFAIL can avoid retrying the whole path of kmem_cache_alloc and bio_alloc. And, it also fixes the use cases of GFP_ATOMIC correctly. Suggested-by: Chao Yu Reviewed-by: Chao Yu Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: do not write any node pages related to orphan inodes

2015-08-20T15:59:42+00:00

We should not write node pages when deleting orphan inodes. In order to do that, we can eaisly set POR_DOING flag earlier before entering orphan inode routine. Reviewed-by: Chao Yu Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: handle error of f2fs_iget correctly

2015-08-14T23:02:14+00:00

In recover_orphan_inode, whenever f2fs_iget fail, we will make kernel panic, but it's not reasonable, because f2fs_iget can fail due to a lot of reasons including out of memory. So we change error handling method as below: a) when finding no entry for the orphan inode, bug_on for catching bugs; b) for other reasons, report it to caller. Signed-off-by: Chao Yu Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: invalidate temporary meta page

2015-08-05T15:19:21+00:00

To avoid meeting garbage data in next free node block at the end of warm node chain when doing recovery, we will try to zero out that invalid block. If the device is not support discard, our way for zeroing out block is: grabbing a temporary zeroed page in meta inode, then, issue write request with this page. But, we forget to release that temporary page, so our memory usage will increase without gaining any hit ratio benefit, so it's better to free it for saving memory. Signed-off-by: Chao Yu Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: freeze filesystem when fail to update meta page due to IO error

2015-08-05T15:08:17+00:00

In get_meta_page, we guarantee no failure for the returned page, but sometimes, IO error from device will incur returning an non-updated page. Then, we still use this page as updated one, exception could happen when using this kind of page. So in this condition, we'd better freeze fs by making fs readonly and and stop doing checkpoint. Signed-off-by: Chao Yu Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim