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authorJunling Zheng <zhengjunling@huawei.com>2018-03-07 07:07:49 +0300
committerJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>2018-03-17 07:57:28 +0300
commit93cf93f17c8ef7c03d828914eaef88d8e585490d (patch)
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parenteea52882d848827ca812282118cd17025a76a891 (diff)
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f2fs: introduce mount option for fsync mode
Commit "0a007b97aad6"(f2fs: recover directory operations by fsync) fixed xfstest generic/342 case, but it also increased the written data and caused the performance degradation. In most cases, there's no need to do so heavy fsync actually. So we introduce new mount option "fsync_mode={posix,strict}" to control the policy of fsync. "fsync_mode=posix" is set by default, and means that f2fs uses a light fsync, which follows POSIX semantics. And "fsync_mode=strict" means that it's a heavy fsync, which behaves in line with xfs, ext4 and btrfs, where generic/342 will pass, but the performance will regress. Signed-off-by: Junling Zheng <zhengjunling@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
index 0409c47584ea..514e44983a8e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
@@ -182,6 +182,13 @@ whint_mode=%s Control which write hints are passed down to block
passes down hints with its policy.
alloc_mode=%s Adjust block allocation policy, which supports "reuse"
and "default".
+fsync_mode=%s Control the policy of fsync. Currently supports "posix"
+ and "strict". In "posix" mode, which is default, fsync
+ will follow POSIX semantics and does a light operation
+ to improve the filesystem performance. In "strict" mode,
+ fsync will be heavy and behaves in line with xfs, ext4
+ and btrfs, where xfstest generic/342 will pass, but the
+ performance will regress.
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