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Jaegeuk Kim 437275272f f2fs: clarify and enhance the f2fs_gc flow
This patch makes clearer the ambiguous f2fs_gc flow as follows.

1. Remove intermediate checkpoint condition during f2fs_gc
 (i.e., should_do_checkpoint() and GC_BLOCKED)

2. Remove unnecessary return values of f2fs_gc because of #1.
 (i.e., GC_NODE, GC_OK, etc)

3. Simplify write_checkpoint() because of #2.

4. Clarify the main f2fs_gc flow.
 o monitor how many freed sections during one iteration of do_garbage_collect().
 o do GC more without checkpoints if we can't get enough free sections.
 o do checkpoint once we've got enough free sections through forground GCs.

5. Adopt thread-logging (Slack-Space-Recycle) scheme more aggressively on data
  log types. See. get_ssr_segement()

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-02-12 07:15:02 +09:00
Namjae Jeon 5ac206cf4f f2fs: make an accessor to get sections for particular block type
Introduce accessor to get the sections based upon the block type
(node,dents...) and modify the functions : should_do_checkpoint,
has_not_enough_free_secs to use this accessor function to get
the node sections and dent sections.

Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-02-12 07:15:02 +09:00
Namjae Jeon ec7b1f2dd1 f2fs: name gc task as per the block device
Currently GC task is started for each f2fs formatted/mounted device.
But, when we check the task list, using 'ps', there is no distinguishing
factor between the tasks. So, name the task as per the block device just
like the flusher threads.
Also, remove the macro GC_THREAD_NAME and instead use the name: f2fs_gc
to avoid name length truncation, as the command length is 16
-> TASK_COMM_LEN 16 and example name like:
f2fs_gc_task:8:16 -> this exceeds name length

Before Patch for 2 F2FS formatted partitions:
root  28061  0.0  0.0  0 0 ? S 10:31   0:00 [f2fs_gc_task]
root  28087  0.0  0.0  0 0 ? S 10:32   0:00 [f2fs_gc_task]

After Patch:
root  16756  0.0  0.0  0  0 ?  S  14:57   0:00 [f2fs_gc-8:18]
root  16765  0.0  0.0  0  0 ?  S  14:57   0:00 [f2fs_gc-8:19]

Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-02-12 07:15:02 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim 0a8165d7c2 f2fs: adjust kernel coding style
As pointed out by Randy Dunlap, this patch removes all usage of "/**" for comment
blocks. Instead, just use "/*".

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2012-12-11 13:43:42 +09:00
Jaegeuk Kim 7bc0900347 f2fs: add garbage collection functions
This adds on-demand and background cleaning functions.

- The basic background cleaning policy is trying to do cleaning jobs as much as
  possible whenever the system is idle. Once the background cleaning is done,
  the cleaner sleeps an amount of time not to interfere with VFS calls. The time
  is dynamically adjusted according to the status of whole segments, which is
  decreased when the following conditions are satisfied.

  . GC is not conducted currently, and
  . IO subsystem is idle by checking the number of requets in bdev's request
     list, and
  . There are enough dirty segments.

  Otherwise, the time is increased incrementally until to the maximum time.
  Note that, min and max times are 10 secs and 30 secs by default.

- F2FS adopts a default victim selection policy where background cleaning uses
  a cost-benefit algorithm, while on-demand cleaning uses a greedy algorithm.

- The method of moving data during the cleaning is slightly different between
  background and on-demand cleaning schemes. In the case of background cleaning,
  F2FS loads the data, and marks them as dirty. Then, F2FS expects that the data
  will be moved by flusher or VM. In the case of on-demand cleaning, F2FS should
  move the data right away.

- In order to identify valid blocks in a victim segment, F2FS scans the bitmap
  of the segment managed as an SIT entry.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2012-12-11 13:43:41 +09:00