This patch introduces a runtime hot/cold data separation method
for f2fs, in order to improve the accuracy for data temperature
classification, reduce the garbage collection overhead after
long-term data updates.
Enhanced hot/cold data separation can record data block update
frequency as "age" of the extent per inode, and take use of the age
info to indicate better temperature type for data block allocation:
- It records total data blocks allocated since mount;
- When file extent has been updated, it calculate the count of data
blocks allocated since last update as the age of the extent;
- Before the data block allocated, it searches for the age info and
chooses the suitable segment for allocation.
Test and result:
- Prepare: create about 30000 files
* 3% for cold files (with cold file extension like .apk, from 3M to 10M)
* 50% for warm files (with random file extension like .FcDxq, from 1K
to 4M)
* 47% for hot files (with hot file extension like .db, from 1K to 256K)
- create(5%)/random update(90%)/delete(5%) the files
* total write amount is about 70G
* fsync will be called for .db files, and buffered write will be used
for other files
The storage of test device is large enough(128G) so that it will not
switch to SSR mode during the test.
Benefit: dirty segment count increment reduce about 14%
- before: Dirty +21110
- after: Dirty +18286
Signed-off-by: qixiaoyu1 <qixiaoyu1@xiaomi.com>
Signed-off-by: xiongping1 <xiongping1@xiaomi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
As f2fs component in bugzilla.kernel.org was created and used since
2018-7.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <frank.li@vivo.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch adds a mount option, barrier, in f2fs.
The barrier option is the opposite of nobarrier.
If this option is set, cache_flush commands are allowed to be issued.
Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <frank.li@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch supports to inject fault into f2fs_is_valid_blkaddr() to
simulate accessing inconsistent data/meta block addressses from caller.
Usage:
a) echo 262144 > /sys/fs/f2fs/<dev>/inject_type or
b) mount -o fault_type=262144 <dev> <mountpoint>
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Introduce memory mode to supports "normal" and "low" memory modes.
"low" mode is to support low memory devices. Because of the nature of
low memory devices, in this mode, f2fs will try to save memory sometimes
by sacrificing performance. "normal" mode is the default mode and same
as before.
Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
f2fs: support fault injection for f2fs_trylock_op()
This patch supports to inject fault into f2fs_trylock_op().
Usage:
a) echo 65536 > /sys/fs/f2fs/<dev>/inject_type or
b) mount -o fault_type=65536 <dev> <mountpoint>
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch adds a new function f2fs_dquot_initialize() to wrap
dquot_initialize(), and it supports to inject fault into
f2fs_dquot_initialize() to simulate inner failure occurs in
dquot_initialize().
Usage:
a) echo 65536 > /sys/fs/f2fs/<dev>/inject_type or
b) mount -o fault_type=65536 <dev> <mountpoint>
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Added two options into "mode=" mount option to make it possible for
developers to simulate filesystem fragmentation/after-GC situation
itself. The developers use these modes to understand filesystem
fragmentation/after-GC condition well, and eventually get some
insights to handle them better.
"fragment:segment": f2fs allocates a new segment in ramdom position.
With this, we can simulate the after-GC condition.
"fragment:block" : We can scatter block allocation with
"max_fragment_chunk" and "max_fragment_hole" sysfs
nodes. f2fs will allocate 1..<max_fragment_chunk>
blocks in a chunk and make a hole in the length of
1..<max_fragment_hole> by turns in a newly allocated
free segment. Plus, this mode implicitly enables
"fragment:segment" option for more randomness.
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
The value of FAULT_* macros and its description in f2fs.rst became
inconsistent, fix this to keep compatibility of fault injection
interface.
Fixes: 67883ade7a98 ("f2fs: remove FAULT_ALLOC_BIO")
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch supports to inject fault into f2fs_kmem_cache_alloc().
Usage:
a) echo 32768 > /sys/fs/f2fs/<dev>/inject_type or
b) mount -o fault_type=32768 <dev> <mountpoint>
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
For compressed file, after release compress blocks, don't allow write
direct, but we should allow write direct after truncate to zero.
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Fengnan Chang <changfengnan@vivo.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
As James Z reported in bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213877
[1.] One-line summary of the problem:
Mount multiple SMR block devices exceed certain number cause system non-response
[2.] Full description of the problem/report:
Created some F2FS on SMR devices (mkfs.f2fs -m), then mounted in sequence. Each device is the same Model: HGST HSH721414AL (Size 14TB).
Empirically, found that when the amount of SMR device * 1.5Gb > System RAM, the system ran out of memory and hung. No dmesg output. For example, 24 SMR Disk need 24*1.5GB = 36GB. A system with 32G RAM can only mount 21 devices, the 22nd device will be a reproducible cause of system hang.
The number of SMR devices with other FS mounted on this system does not interfere with the result above.
[3.] Keywords (i.e., modules, networking, kernel):
F2FS, SMR, Memory
[4.] Kernel information
[4.1.] Kernel version (uname -a):
Linux 5.13.4-200.fc34.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jul 20 20:27:29 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[4.2.] Kernel .config file:
Default Fedora 34 with f2fs-tools-1.14.0-2.fc34.x86_64
[5.] Most recent kernel version which did not have the bug:
None
[6.] Output of Oops.. message (if applicable) with symbolic information
resolved (see Documentation/admin-guide/oops-tracing.rst)
None
[7.] A small shell script or example program which triggers the
problem (if possible)
mount /dev/sdX /mnt/0X
[8.] Memory consumption
With 24 * 14T SMR Block device with F2FS
free -g
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 46 36 0 0 10 10
Swap: 0 0 0
With 3 * 14T SMR Block device with F2FS
free -g
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7 5 0 0 1 1
Swap: 7 0 7
The root cause is, there are three bitmaps:
- cur_valid_map
- ckpt_valid_map
- discard_map
and each of them will cost ~500MB memory, {cur, ckpt}_valid_map are
necessary, but discard_map is optional, since this bitmap will only be
useful in mountpoint that small discard is enabled.
For a blkzoned device such as SMR or ZNS devices, f2fs will only issue
discard for a section(zone) when all blocks of that section are invalid,
so, for such device, we don't need small discard functionality at all.
This patch introduces a new mountoption "discard_unit=block|segment|
section" to support issuing discard with different basic unit which is
aligned to block, segment or section, so that user can specify
"discard_unit=segment" or "discard_unit=section" to disable small
discard functionality.
Note that this mount option can not be changed by remount() due to
related metadata need to be initialized during mount().
In order to save memory, let's use "discard_unit=section" for blkzoned
device by default.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
When we create a directory with enable compression, all file write into
directory will try to compress.But sometimes we may know, new file
cannot meet compression ratio requirements.
We need a nocompress extension to skip those files to avoid unnecessary
compress page test.
After add nocompress_extension, the priority should be:
dir_flag < comp_extention,nocompress_extension < comp_file_flag,
no_comp_file_flag.
Priority in between FS_COMPR_FL, FS_NOCOMP_FS, extensions:
* compress_extension=so; nocompress_extension=zip; chattr +c dir;
touch dir/foo.so; touch dir/bar.zip; touch dir/baz.txt; then foo.so
and baz.txt should be compresse, bar.zip should be non-compressed.
chattr +c dir/bar.zip can enable compress on bar.zip.
* compress_extension=so; nocompress_extension=zip; chattr -c dir;
touch dir/foo.so; touch dir/bar.zip; touch dir/baz.txt; then foo.so
should be compresse, bar.zip and baz.txt should be non-compressed.
chattr+c dir/bar.zip; chattr+c dir/baz.txt; can enable compress on
bar.zip and baz.txt.
Signed-off-by: Fengnan Chang <changfengnan@vivo.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Otherwise whole section after tab will be invisible in compiled
html format document.
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Fixes: 89272ca1102e ("docs: filesystems: convert f2fs.txt to ReST")
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Support to use address space of inner inode to cache compressed block,
in order to improve cache hit ratio of random read.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
User or developer may still be confused about why f2fs doesn't expose
compressed space to userspace, add description about compressed space
handling policy into f2fs documentation.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
In this patch, we will add two new mount options: "gc_merge" and
"nogc_merge", when background_gc is on, "gc_merge" option can be
set to let background GC thread to handle foreground GC requests,
it can eliminate the sluggish issue caused by slow foreground GC
operation when GC is triggered from a process with limited I/O
and CPU resources.
Original idea is from Xiang.
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <xiang@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
We've added a new mount options, "checkpoint_merge" and "nocheckpoint_merge",
which creates a kernel daemon and makes it to merge concurrent checkpoint
requests as much as possible to eliminate redundant checkpoint issues. Plus,
we can eliminate the sluggish issue caused by slow checkpoint operation
when the checkpoint is done in a process context in a cgroup having
low i/o budget and cpu shares. To make this do better, we set the
default i/o priority of the kernel daemon to "3", to give one higher
priority than other kernel threads. The below verification result
explains this.
The basic idea has come from https://opensource.samsung.com.
[Verification]
Android Pixel Device(ARM64, 7GB RAM, 256GB UFS)
Create two I/O cgroups (fg w/ weight 100, bg w/ wight 20)
Set "strict_guarantees" to "1" in BFQ tunables
In "fg" cgroup,
- thread A => trigger 1000 checkpoint operations
"for i in `seq 1 1000`; do touch test_dir1/file; fsync test_dir1;
done"
- thread B => gererating async. I/O
"fio --rw=write --numjobs=1 --bs=128k --runtime=3600 --time_based=1
--filename=test_img --name=test"
In "bg" cgroup,
- thread C => trigger repeated checkpoint operations
"echo $$ > /dev/blkio/bg/tasks; while true; do touch test_dir2/file;
fsync test_dir2; done"
We've measured thread A's execution time.
[ w/o patch ]
Elapsed Time: Avg. 68 seconds
[ w/ patch ]
Elapsed Time: Avg. 48 seconds
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: fix the return value in f2fs_start_ckpt_thread, reported by Dan]
Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sungjong Seo <sj1557.seo@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Expand 'compress_algorithm' mount option to accept parameter as format of
<algorithm>:<level>, by this way, it gives a way to allow user to do more
specified config on lz4 and zstd compression level, then f2fs compression
can provide higher compress ratio.
In order to set compress level for lz4 algorithm, it needs to set
CONFIG_LZ4HC_COMPRESS and CONFIG_F2FS_FS_LZ4HC config to enable lz4hc
compress algorithm.
CR and performance number on lz4/lz4hc algorithm:
dd if=enwik9 of=compressed_file conv=fsync
Original blocks: 244382
lz4 lz4hc-9
compressed blocks 170647 163270
compress ratio 69.8% 66.8%
speed 16.4207 s, 60.9 MB/s 26.7299 s, 37.4 MB/s
compress ratio = after / before
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
