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
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1. write 368K
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2. write 140K
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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>
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 truncate_xattr_node function will be used by inline xattr. 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>
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>
Let's check the free space in prior to the main process of allocating a new node page. Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> 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>
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
"This patch-set includes the following major enhancement patches:
- remount_fs callback function
- restore parent inode number to enhance the fsync performance
- xattr security labels
- reduce the number of redundant lock/unlock data pages
- avoid frequent write_inode calls
The other minor bug fixes are as follows.
- endian conversion bugs
- various bugs in the roll-forward recovery routine"
* tag 'for-f2fs-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (56 commits)
f2fs: fix to recover i_size from roll-forward
f2fs: remove the unused argument "sbi" of func destroy_fsync_dnodes()
f2fs: remove reusing any prefree segments
f2fs: code cleanup and simplify in func {find/add}_gc_inode
f2fs: optimize the init_dirty_segmap function
f2fs: fix an endian conversion bug detected by sparse
f2fs: fix crc endian conversion
f2fs: add remount_fs callback support
f2fs: recover wrong pino after checkpoint during fsync
f2fs: optimize do_write_data_page()
f2fs: make locate_dirty_segment() as static
f2fs: remove unnecessary parameter "offset" from __add_sum_entry()
f2fs: avoid freqeunt write_inode calls
f2fs: optimise the truncate_data_blocks_range() range
f2fs: use the F2FS specific flags in f2fs_ioctl()
f2fs: sync dir->i_size with its block allocation
f2fs: fix i_blocks translation on various types of files
f2fs: set sb->s_fs_info before calling parse_options()
f2fs: support xattr security labels
f2fs: fix iget/iput of dir during recovery
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