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f2fs: give an option to enable in-place-updates during fsync to users

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If user wrote F2FS_IPU_FSYNC:4 in /sys/fs/f2fs/ipu_policy, f2fs_sync_file
only starts to try in-place-updates.
And, if the number of dirty pages is over /sys/fs/f2fs/min_fsync_blocks, it
keeps out-of-order manner. Otherwise, it triggers in-place-updates.

This may be used by storage showing very high random write performance.

For example, it can be used when,

Seq. writes (Data) + wait + Seq. writes (Node)

is pretty much slower than,

Rand. writes (Data)

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
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2014-09-10 16:53:02 -07:00
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@@ -44,6 +44,13 @@ Description:
Controls the FS utilization condition for the in-place-update
policies.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/min_fsync_blocks
Date: September 2014
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Description:
Controls the dirty page count condition for the in-place-update
policies.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/max_small_discards
Date: November 2013
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>