Merge tag 'for-f2fs-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs

Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
 "This patch-set includes the following major enhancement patches.
   - introduce large directory support
   - introduce f2fs_issue_flush to merge redundant flush commands
   - merge write IOs as much as possible aligned to the segment
   - add sysfs entries to tune the f2fs configuration
   - use radix_tree for the free_nid_list to reduce in-memory operations
   - remove costly bit operations in f2fs_find_entry
   - enhance the readahead flow for CP/NAT/SIT/SSA blocks

  The other bug fixes are as follows:
   - recover xattr node blocks correctly after sudden-power-cut
   - fix to calculate the maximum number of node ids
   - enhance to handle many error cases

  And, there are a bunch of cleanups"

* tag 'for-f2fs-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (62 commits)
  f2fs: fix wrong statistics of inline data
  f2fs: check the acl's validity before setting
  f2fs: introduce f2fs_issue_flush to avoid redundant flush issue
  f2fs: fix to cover io->bio with io_rwsem
  f2fs: fix error path when fail to read inline data
  f2fs: use list_for_each_entry{_safe} for simplyfying code
  f2fs: avoid free slab cache under spinlock
  f2fs: avoid unneeded lookup when xattr name length is too long
  f2fs: avoid unnecessary bio submit when wait page writeback
  f2fs: return -EIO when node id is not matched
  f2fs: avoid RECLAIM_FS-ON-W warning
  f2fs: skip unnecessary node writes during fsync
  f2fs: introduce fi->i_sem to protect fi's info
  f2fs: change reclaim rate in percentage
  f2fs: add missing documentation for dir_level
  f2fs: remove unnecessary threshold
  f2fs: throttle the memory footprint with a sysfs entry
  f2fs: avoid to drop nat entries due to the negative nr_shrink
  f2fs: call f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback instead of native function
  f2fs: introduce nr_pages_to_write for segment alignment
  ...
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Linus Torvalds
2014-04-07 10:55:36 -07:00
21 changed files with 940 additions and 513 deletions

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@@ -122,6 +122,10 @@ disable_ext_identify Disable the extension list configured by mkfs, so f2fs
inline_xattr Enable the inline xattrs feature.
inline_data Enable the inline data feature: New created small(<~3.4k)
files can be written into inode block.
flush_merge Merge concurrent cache_flush commands as much as possible
to eliminate redundant command issues. If the underlying
device handles the cache_flush command relatively slowly,
recommend to enable this option.
================================================================================
DEBUGFS ENTRIES
@@ -169,9 +173,11 @@ Files in /sys/fs/f2fs/<devname>
reclaim_segments This parameter controls the number of prefree
segments to be reclaimed. If the number of prefree
segments is larger than this number, f2fs tries to
conduct checkpoint to reclaim the prefree segments
to free segments. By default, 100 segments, 200MB.
segments is larger than the number of segments
in the proportion to the percentage over total
volume size, f2fs tries to conduct checkpoint to
reclaim the prefree segments to free segments.
By default, 5% over total # of segments.
max_small_discards This parameter controls the number of discard
commands that consist small blocks less than 2MB.
@@ -195,6 +201,17 @@ Files in /sys/fs/f2fs/<devname>
cleaning operations. The default value is 4096
which covers 8GB block address range.
dir_level This parameter controls the directory level to
support large directory. If a directory has a
number of files, it can reduce the file lookup
latency by increasing this dir_level value.
Otherwise, it needs to decrease this value to
reduce the space overhead. The default value is 0.
ram_thresh This parameter controls the memory footprint used
by free nids and cached nat entries. By default,
10 is set, which indicates 10 MB / 1 GB RAM.
================================================================================
USAGE
================================================================================
@@ -444,9 +461,11 @@ The number of blocks and buckets are determined by,
# of blocks in level #n = |
`- 4, Otherwise
,- 2^n, if n < MAX_DIR_HASH_DEPTH / 2,
,- 2^ (n + dir_level),
| if n < MAX_DIR_HASH_DEPTH / 2,
# of buckets in level #n = |
`- 2^((MAX_DIR_HASH_DEPTH / 2) - 1), Otherwise
`- 2^((MAX_DIR_HASH_DEPTH / 2 + dir_level) - 1),
Otherwise
When F2FS finds a file name in a directory, at first a hash value of the file
name is calculated. Then, F2FS scans the hash table in level #0 to find the