Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Description: Do background GC agressively when set. When gc_urgent = 1,
background thread starts to do GC by given gc_urgent_sleep_time
- interval. It is set to 0 by default.
+ interval. When gc_urgent = 2, F2FS will lower the bar of
+ checking idle in order to process outstanding discard commands
+ and GC a little bit aggressively. It is set to 0 by default.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_urgent_sleep_time
Date: August 2017
GC_NORMAL,
GC_IDLE_CB,
GC_IDLE_GREEDY,
- GC_URGENT,
+ GC_URGENT_HIGH,
+ GC_URGENT_LOW,
};
enum {
unsigned int cur_victim_sec; /* current victim section num */
unsigned int gc_mode; /* current GC state */
unsigned int next_victim_seg[2]; /* next segment in victim section */
+
/* for skip statistic */
unsigned int atomic_files; /* # of opened atomic file */
unsigned long long skipped_atomic_files[2]; /* FG_GC and BG_GC */
static inline bool is_idle(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, int type)
{
- if (sbi->gc_mode == GC_URGENT)
+ if (sbi->gc_mode == GC_URGENT_HIGH)
return true;
if (get_pages(sbi, F2FS_RD_DATA) || get_pages(sbi, F2FS_RD_NODE) ||
atomic_read(&SM_I(sbi)->fcc_info->queued_flush))
return false;
+ if (sbi->gc_mode == GC_URGENT_LOW &&
+ (type == DISCARD_TIME || type == GC_TIME))
+ return true;
+
return f2fs_time_over(sbi, type);
}
* invalidated soon after by user update or deletion.
* So, I'd like to wait some time to collect dirty segments.
*/
- if (sbi->gc_mode == GC_URGENT) {
+ if (sbi->gc_mode == GC_URGENT_HIGH) {
wait_ms = gc_th->urgent_sleep_time;
down_write(&sbi->gc_lock);
goto do_gc;
gc_mode = GC_CB;
break;
case GC_IDLE_GREEDY:
- case GC_URGENT:
+ case GC_URGENT_HIGH:
gc_mode = GC_GREEDY;
break;
}
* foreground GC and urgent GC cases.
*/
if (gc_type != FG_GC &&
- (sbi->gc_mode != GC_URGENT) &&
+ (sbi->gc_mode != GC_URGENT_HIGH) &&
p->max_search > sbi->max_victim_search)
p->max_search = sbi->max_victim_search;
if (f2fs_lfs_mode(sbi))
return false;
- if (sbi->gc_mode == GC_URGENT)
+ if (sbi->gc_mode == GC_URGENT_HIGH)
return true;
if (unlikely(is_sbi_flag_set(sbi, SBI_CP_DISABLED)))
return true;
continue;
}
- if (sbi->gc_mode == GC_URGENT)
+ if (sbi->gc_mode == GC_URGENT_HIGH)
__init_discard_policy(sbi, &dpolicy, DPOLICY_FORCE, 1);
sb_start_intwrite(sbi->sb);
return -EINVAL;
if (!strcmp(a->attr.name, "gc_urgent")) {
- if (t >= 1) {
- sbi->gc_mode = GC_URGENT;
+ if (t == 0) {
+ sbi->gc_mode = GC_NORMAL;
+ } else if (t == 1) {
+ sbi->gc_mode = GC_URGENT_HIGH;
if (sbi->gc_thread) {
sbi->gc_thread->gc_wake = 1;
wake_up_interruptible_all(
&sbi->gc_thread->gc_wait_queue_head);
wake_up_discard_thread(sbi, true);
}
+ } else if (t == 2) {
+ sbi->gc_mode = GC_URGENT_LOW;
} else {
- sbi->gc_mode = GC_NORMAL;
+ return -EINVAL;
}
return count;
}