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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 16:21:48 -0700
From: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
To: Chao Yu <yuchaochina@...mail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: merge meta writes as many possible
Hi Chao,
On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 10:54:12PM +0800, Chao Yu wrote:
> Hi Jaegeuk,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jaegeuk Kim [mailto:jaegeuk@...nel.org]
> > Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2015 12:48 AM
> > To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org;
> > linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org;
> > linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org; linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
> > Cc: Jaegeuk Kim; Jaegeuk Kim
> > Subject: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: merge meta writes as many possible
> >
> > This patch tries to merge IOs as many as possible when background flusher
> > conducts flushing the dirty meta pages.
> >
> > [Before]
> >
> > ...
> > 2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 124320, size = 4096
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 124560, size = 32768
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 95720, size = 987136
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 123928, size = 4096
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 123944, size = 8192
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 123968, size = 45056
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 124064, size = 4096
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 97648, size = 1007616
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 123776, size = 8192
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 123800, size = 32768
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 124624, size = 4096
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 99616, size = 921600
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 123608, size = 4096
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 123624, size = 77824
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 123792, size = 4096
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 123864, size = 32768
> > ...
> >
> > [After]
> >
> > ...
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 92168, size = 892928
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 93912, size = 753664
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 95384, size = 716800
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 96784, size = 712704
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 104160, size = 364544
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 104872, size = 356352
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 105568, size = 278528
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 106112, size = 319488
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 106736, size = 258048
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 107240, size = 270336
> > f2fs_submit_write_bio: dev = (8,18), WRITE_SYNC(MP), META, sector = 107768, size = 180224
> > ...
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
> > ---
> > fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c | 8 +++++++-
> > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
> > index ff53405..da5ee7e 100644
> > --- a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
> > +++ b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
> > @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ long sync_meta_pages(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, enum page_type type,
> > long nr_to_write)
> > {
> > struct address_space *mapping = META_MAPPING(sbi);
> > - pgoff_t index = 0, end = LONG_MAX;
> > + pgoff_t index = 0, end = LONG_MAX, prev = LONG_MAX;
> > struct pagevec pvec;
> > long nwritten = 0;
> > struct writeback_control wbc = {
> > @@ -277,6 +277,11 @@ long sync_meta_pages(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, enum page_type type,
> > for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
> > struct page *page = pvec.pages[i];
> >
> > + if (prev == LONG_MAX)
> > + prev = page->index - 1;
> > + if (nr_to_write != LONG_MAX && page->index != prev + 1)
>
> Does this mean we only writeback consecutive meta page of SSA region? If these meta
> pages are updated randomly (in collapse range or insert range case), we will writeback
> very few meta pages in one round of flush, it may cause low performance since FTL will
> do the force GC on our meta page update region if we writeback meta pages in one segment
> repeatly.
I don't think this would degrade the performance pretty much. Rather than that,
as the above traces, I could see more possitive impact on IO patterns when I
gave some delay on flushing meta pages. (I got the traces when copying kernel
source tree.) Moreover, the amount of the meta page writes is relatively lower
than other data types.
> IMO, when the distribution of dirty SSA pages are random, at least we should writeback
> all dirty meta pages in SSA region which align to our segment size under block plug.
>
> One more thing is that I found in xfstest tests/generic/019 always cause inconsistent
> between ssa info and meta info of inode (i_blocks != total_blk_cnt). The reason of the
> problem is in ->falloc::collapse, we will update ssa meta page and node page info
> together, however, unfortunately ssa meta page is writeback by kworker, node page will
> no longer be persisted since fail_make_request made f2fs flagged as CP_ERROR_FLAG.
>
> So writeback SSA pages leads the potential risk of producing consistent issue. I think
> there are some ways can fix this:
> 1) don't writeback SSA pages in kworker, but side-effect is more memory will be cost
> since cp is executed, of course, periodical cp can fix the memory cost issue.
> 2) add some tag in somewhere, we can recover the ssa info with dnode page, but this is
> really a big change.
>
> How do you think? Any better idea?
Good catch!
I think we can allocate a new block address for this case like the below patch.
>From 4979a1cbd7c718cff946cb421fbc0763a3dbd0df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 15:41:58 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] f2fs: avoid SSA corruption when replacing block addresses
If block addresses are pointed by the previous checkpoint, we should not update
the SSA when replacing block addresses by f2fs_collapse_range.
This patch allocates a new block address if there is an exising block address.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
---
fs/f2fs/segment.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.c b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
index 1d86a35..3c546eb 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/segment.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
@@ -1391,8 +1391,20 @@ void f2fs_replace_block(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, struct dnode_of_data *dn,
{
struct f2fs_summary sum;
+ /*
+ * we should not use the existing address to avoid SSA
+ * corruption.
+ */
set_summary(&sum, dn->nid, dn->ofs_in_node, version);
+ if (recover_curseg && old_addr != NULL_ADDR && old_addr != NEW_ADDR) {
+ allocate_data_block(sbi, NULL, dn->data_blkaddr,
+ &dn->data_blkaddr, &sum, CURSEG_WARM_DATA);
+ set_data_blkaddr(dn);
+ f2fs_update_extent_cache(dn);
+ old_addr = dn->data_blkaddr;
+ }
+
__f2fs_replace_block(sbi, &sum, old_addr, new_addr, recover_curseg);
dn->data_blkaddr = new_addr;
--
2.1.1
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