Re: f2fs: Add f2fs_balance_fs for direct IO

[Jaegeuk Kim]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 04:16:52PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> Hi, Jaegeuk,
> 
> On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 00:58 -0700, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> > Hi Huang,
> > 
> > It occurs a merge conflict.
> > Please check the patch.
> 
> Sorry, my fault.  I think I need to base my patch on f2fs tree instead
> of latest Linus' tree?

My apologies.
As Chao said, it was due to the other patch.
I'll merge them soon.

> 
> > Anyway, IMO, it needs to place f2fs_balance_fs somewhere in get_data_block.
> 
> Yes.  I think so too.  So you prefer to add f2fs_balance_fs in both
> f2fs_direct_IO and get_data_block, or just add f2fs_blance_fs in
> get_data_block only?

I think it should be placed on get_data_block only.
But, at a glance, we need to figure out some conditions when it should be
called.
Since we don't or shouldn't call that in the look-up paths (e.g., read).

Thanks,

> 
> Best Regards,
> Huang, Ying
> 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 01:46:28PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> > > Otherwise, if a large amount of direct IO writes were done, the
> > > segment allocation may be failed because no enough segments are gced.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  fs/f2fs/data.c |    6 +++++-
> > >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > --- a/fs/f2fs/data.c
> > > +++ b/fs/f2fs/data.c
> > > @@ -1038,6 +1038,7 @@ static ssize_t f2fs_direct_IO(int rw, st
> > >  {
> > >  	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
> > >  	struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
> > > +	struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi = F2FS_SB(inode->i_sb);
> > >  
> > >  	/* Let buffer I/O handle the inline data case. */
> > >  	if (f2fs_has_inline_data(inode))
> > > @@ -1046,8 +1047,11 @@ static ssize_t f2fs_direct_IO(int rw, st
> > >  	if (check_direct_IO(inode, rw, iter, offset))
> > >  		return 0;
> > >  
> > > +	if (rw == WRITE)
> > > +		f2fs_balance_fs(sbi);
> > > +
> > >  	/* clear fsync mark to recover these blocks */
> > > -	fsync_mark_clear(F2FS_SB(inode->i_sb), inode->i_ino);
> > > +	fsync_mark_clear(sbi, inode->i_ino);
> > >  
> > >  	return blockdev_direct_IO(rw, iocb, inode, iter, offset,
> > >  				  get_data_block);
> > 

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Jaegeuk Kim
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