[PATCH v2 3/4] f2fs: flush dirty nat entries when exceeding threshold

[Chao Yu]

When testing f2fs with xfstest, generic/251 is stuck for long time,
the case uses below serials to obtain fresh released space in device,
in order to prepare for following fstrim test.

1. rm -rf /mnt/dir
2. mkdir /mnt/dir/
3. cp -axT `pwd`/ /mnt/dir/
4. goto 1

During preparing step, all nat entries will be cached in nat cache,
most of them are dirty entries with invalid blkaddr, which means
nodes related to these entries have been truncated, and they could
be reused after the dirty entries been checkpointed.

However, there was no checkpoint been triggered, so nid allocators
(e.g. mkdir, creat) will run into long journey of iterating all NAT
pages, looking for free nids in alloc_nid->build_free_nids.

Here, in f2fs_balance_fs_bg we give another chance to do checkpoint
to flush nat entries for reusing them in free nid cache when dirty
entry count exceeds 10% of max count.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 v2:
 - update comments.
---
 fs/f2fs/node.h    | 9 +++++++++
 fs/f2fs/segment.c | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/node.h b/fs/f2fs/node.h
index d4d1f63..bd119c0 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/node.h
+++ b/fs/f2fs/node.h
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@
 /* control the memory footprint threshold (10MB per 1GB ram) */
 #define DEF_RAM_THRESHOLD	10
 
+/* control dirty nats ratio threshold (default: 10% over max nid count) */
+#define DEF_DIRTY_NAT_RATIO_THRESHOLD		10
+
 /* vector size for gang look-up from nat cache that consists of radix tree */
 #define NATVEC_SIZE	64
 #define SETVEC_SIZE	32
@@ -117,6 +120,12 @@ static inline void raw_nat_from_node_info(struct f2fs_nat_entry *raw_ne,
 	raw_ne->version = ni->version;
 }
 
+static inline bool excess_dirty_nats(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
+{
+	return NM_I(sbi)->dirty_nat_cnt >= NM_I(sbi)->max_nid *
+					DEF_DIRTY_NAT_RATIO_THRESHOLD / 100;
+}
+
 enum mem_type {
 	FREE_NIDS,	/* indicates the free nid list */
 	NAT_ENTRIES,	/* indicates the cached nat entry */
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.c b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
index 0246acc..070988b 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/segment.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
@@ -292,8 +292,9 @@ void f2fs_balance_fs_bg(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 
 	/* checkpoint is the only way to shrink partial cached entries */
 	if (!available_free_memory(sbi, NAT_ENTRIES) ||
-			excess_prefree_segs(sbi) ||
 			!available_free_memory(sbi, INO_ENTRIES) ||
+			excess_prefree_segs(sbi) ||
+			excess_dirty_nats(sbi) ||
 			(is_idle(sbi) && f2fs_time_over(sbi, CP_TIME))) {
 		if (test_opt(sbi, DATA_FLUSH))
 			sync_dirty_inodes(sbi, FILE_INODE);
-- 
2.6.3