RE: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: change the method of calculating thenumber summary blocks

From: Fan Li
Date: Tue Oct 29 2013 - 03:42:24 EST


> Hi,
>
> 2013-10-28 (ì), 08:54 +0000, Fan Li:
> > "There is a HTML error in the previous email, so I send this one.If you
> already received this before, please ignore it.Sorry for the inconvenience"
> >
> > This patch change the method of calculating the number of summary blocks
> in function npages_for_summary_flush.
> > npages_for_summary_flush uses (SUMMARY_SIZE + 1) as the size of a
> f2fs_summary while the actual size is just SUMMARY_SIZE.
> > As a result, occasionally the return value of npages_for_summary_flush will
> be bigger than the actual number by one, and the checkpoint won't be
> written contiguously into disk.
> > Besides, struct f2fs_summary can't be split to two pages, so it could take
> more space than the sum of its size, the current version seems not to take it
> into account.
> >
>
> Again. Please write a description not to exceed 80 columns.
>

Sorry, didn't know. here's the short version:
npages_for_summary_flush uses (SUMMARY_SIZE + 1) as the size of a f2fs_summary
while its actual size is SUMMARY_SIZE. So the result sometimes is bigger than
actual number by one, which causes checkpoint can't be written into disk contiguously,
and sometimes summary blocks can't be compacted like they should.
Besides, when writing summary blocks into pages, if remain space in a page isn't
big enough for one f2fs_summary, it will be left unused, current code seems
not to take it into account.

Signed-off-by: Fan Li <fanofcode.li@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/f2fs/segment.c | 14 ++++++--------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.c b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
index 487af61..e40cdc4 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/segment.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
@@ -279,9 +279,8 @@ static void __add_sum_entry(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, int type,
*/
int npages_for_summary_flush(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
{
- int total_size_bytes = 0;
int valid_sum_count = 0;
- int i, sum_space;
+ int i, sum_in_page;

for (i = CURSEG_HOT_DATA; i <= CURSEG_COLD_DATA; i++) {
if (sbi->ckpt->alloc_type[i] == SSR)
@@ -290,13 +289,12 @@ int npages_for_summary_flush(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
valid_sum_count += curseg_blkoff(sbi, i);
}

- total_size_bytes = valid_sum_count * (SUMMARY_SIZE + 1)
- + sizeof(struct nat_journal) + 2
- + sizeof(struct sit_journal) + 2;
- sum_space = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - SUM_FOOTER_SIZE;
- if (total_size_bytes < sum_space)
+ sum_in_page = (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 2 * SUM_JOURNAL_SIZE -
+ SUM_FOOTER_SIZE) / SUMMARY_SIZE;
+ if (valid_sum_count <= sum_in_page)
return 1;
- else if (total_size_bytes < 2 * sum_space)
+ else if ((valid_sum_count - sum_in_page) <=
+ (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - SUM_FOOTER_SIZE) / SUMMARY_SIZE)
return 2;
return 3;
}
--
1.7.9.5

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