RE: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: introduce a new direct_IO write path
From: Chao Yu
Date: Thu Dec 19 2013 - 21:16:05 EST
Hi Kim,
One comment as following:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jaegeuk Kim [mailto:jaegeuk.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 8:12 AM
> To: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-f2fs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: introduce a new direct_IO write path
>
> Change log from v1:
> o fix NOSPC error handling
>
> >From b8511a74fe98b67247a9feeed58441e8f5ffd705 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:04:05 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] f2fs: introduce a new direct_IO write path
> Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> linux-f2fs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Previously, f2fs doesn't support direct IOs with high performance, which
> throws
> every write requests via the buffered write path, resulting in highly
> performance degradation due to memory opeations like copy_from_user.
>
> This patch introduces a new direct IO path in which every write requests
> are
> processed by generic blockdev_direct_IO() with enhanced get_block
> function.
>
> The get_data_block() in f2fs handles:
> 1. if original data blocks are allocates, then give them to blockdev.
> 2. otherwise,
> a. preallocate requested block addresses
> b. do not use extent cache for better performance
> c. give the block addresses to blockdev
>
> This policy induces that:
> - new allocated data are sequentially written to the disk
> - updated data are randomly written to the disk.
> - f2fs gives consistency on its file meta, not file data.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/f2fs/data.c | 152
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
> fs/f2fs/f2fs.h | 2 +
> fs/f2fs/segment.c | 23 ++++++---
> 3 files changed, 129 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/data.c b/fs/f2fs/data.c
> index 15956fa..a0950bc 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/data.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/data.c
> @@ -570,74 +570,151 @@ repeat:
> return page;
> }
>
> +static int __allocate_data_block(struct dnode_of_data *dn)
> +{
> + struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi = F2FS_SB(dn->inode->i_sb);
> + struct f2fs_summary sum;
> + block_t new_blkaddr;
> + struct node_info ni;
> + int type;
> +
> + if (unlikely(is_inode_flag_set(F2FS_I(dn->inode), FI_NO_ALLOC)))
> + return -EPERM;
> + if (unlikely(!inc_valid_block_count(sbi, dn->inode, 1)))
> + return -ENOSPC;
> +
> + __set_data_blkaddr(dn, NEW_ADDR);
> + dn->data_blkaddr = NEW_ADDR;
> +
> + get_node_info(sbi, dn->nid, &ni);
> + set_summary(&sum, dn->nid, dn->ofs_in_node, ni.version);
> +
> + type = CURSEG_WARM_DATA;
If so, our cold data will be written to WARM_DATA segment.
How about check segment type here?
> +
> + allocate_data_block(sbi, NULL, NULL_ADDR, &new_blkaddr, &sum, type);
> +
> + /* direct IO doesn't use extent cache to maximize the performance */
> + set_inode_flag(F2FS_I(dn->inode), FI_NO_EXTENT);
> + update_extent_cache(new_blkaddr, dn);
> + clear_inode_flag(F2FS_I(dn->inode), FI_NO_EXTENT);
> +
> + dn->data_blkaddr = new_blkaddr;
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
[snip]
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