Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: introduce sysfs/data_io_flag to attach REQ_META/FUA

From: Jaegeuk Kim
Date: Mon Apr 06 2020 - 23:00:18 EST


On 04/07, Chao Yu wrote:
> On 2020/4/4 0:12, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> > This patch introduces a way to attach REQ_META/FUA explicitly
> > to all the data writes given temperature.
> >
> > -> attach REQ_FUA to Hot Data writes
> >
> > -> attach REQ_FUA to Hot|Warm Data writes
> >
> > -> attach REQ_FUA to Hot|Warm|Cold Data writes
> >
> > -> attach REQ_FUA to Hot|Warm|Cold Data writes as well as
> > REQ_META to Hot Data writes
>
> Out of curiosity, what scenario it is used for?

It's testing purpose to compare the bandwidths per different IO flags.

>
> Thanks,