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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 17:15:46 +0800
From: Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>
To: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] f2fs: fix to trigger a checkpoint in the end of
foreground garbage collection
On 2023/4/11 7:21, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> On 04/10, Chao Yu wrote:
>> On 2023/4/5 23:55, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
>>> On 04/05, Chao Yu wrote:
>>>> On 2023/4/5 5:39, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
>>>>> Can we do like this?
>>>>>
>>>>> From 9a58f0e59364241aa31b555cfe793d278e39b0dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>>>> From: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
>>>>> Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 14:36:00 -0700
>>>>> Subject: [PATCH] f2fs: do checkpoint when there's not enough free sections
>>>>>
>>>>> We didn't do checkpoint in FG_GC case, which may cause losing to reclaim prefree
>>>>> sctions in time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fixes: 6f8d4455060d ("f2fs: avoid fi->i_gc_rwsem[WRITE] lock in f2fs_gc")
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> fs/f2fs/gc.c | 24 +++++++++++-------------
>>>>> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.c b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
>>>>> index 56c53dbe05c9..f1d0dd9c5a6c 100644
>>>>> --- a/fs/f2fs/gc.c
>>>>> +++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
>>>>> @@ -1806,6 +1806,7 @@ int f2fs_gc(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, struct f2fs_gc_control *gc_control)
>>>>> };
>>>>> unsigned int skipped_round = 0, round = 0;
>>>>> unsigned int upper_secs;
>>>>> + bool stop_gc = false;
>>>>> trace_f2fs_gc_begin(sbi->sb, gc_type, gc_control->no_bg_gc,
>>>>> gc_control->nr_free_secs,
>>>>> @@ -1876,19 +1877,15 @@ int f2fs_gc(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, struct f2fs_gc_control *gc_control)
>>>>> (gc_type == FG_GC) ? sec_freed : 0, 0)) {
>>>>> if (gc_type == FG_GC && sec_freed < gc_control->nr_free_secs)
>>>>> goto go_gc_more;
>>>>> - goto stop;
>>>>> - }
>>>>> -
>>>>> - /* FG_GC stops GC by skip_count */
>>>>> - if (gc_type == FG_GC) {
>>>>> + stop_gc = true;
>>>>
>>>> I guess below condition is for emergency recycle of prefree segments during
>>>> foreground GC, in order to avoid exhausting free sections due to to many
>>>> metadata allocation during CP.
>>>>
>>>> if (free_sections(sbi) <= upper_secs + NR_GC_CHECKPOINT_SECS &&
>>>> prefree_segments(sbi)) {
>>>>
>>>> But for common case, free_sections() is close to reserved_segments(), and
>>>> upper_secs + NR_GC_CHECKPOINT_SECS value may be far smaller than free_sections(),
>>>> so checkpoint may not be trggered as expected, IIUC.
>>>>
>>>> So it's fine to just trigger CP in the end of foreground garbage collection?
>>>
>>> My major concern is to avoid unnecessary checkpointing given multiple FG_GC
>>> requests were pending in parallel. And, I don't want to add so many combination
>>> which gives so many corner cases, and feel f2fs_gc() needs to call checkpoint
>>> automatically in the worst case scenario only.
>>
>> Alright.
>>
>>>
>>> By the way, do we just need to call checkpoint here including FG_GC as well?
>>
>> I didn't get it, do you mean?
>>
>> - f2fs_balance_fs()
>> - f2fs_gc() creates prefree segments but not call checkpoint to reclaim
>>
>> - f2fs_balance_fs()
>> - f2fs_gc()
>> - detect prefree segments created by last f2fs_balance_fs, then call
>> f2fs_write_checkpoint to reclaim
>>
>> Or could you please provide a draft patch? :-P
>
> Testing this.
>
> From ec5f37bbe33110257c04e0ec97a80b0111465b52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 14:48:50 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] f2fs: refactor f2fs_gc to call checkpoint in urgent condition
>
> The major change is to call checkpoint, if there's not enough space while having
> some prefree segments in FG_GC case.
I found generic/269 will hang w/ this patch.
Thanks,
>
> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
> ---
> fs/f2fs/gc.c | 26 ++++++++++++--------------
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.c b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
> index c748cdfb0501..0a823d2e8b9d 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/gc.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
> @@ -1829,7 +1829,10 @@ int f2fs_gc(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, struct f2fs_gc_control *gc_control)
> goto stop;
> }
>
> - if (gc_type == BG_GC && has_not_enough_free_secs(sbi, 0, 0)) {
> + /* Let's run FG_GC, if we don't have enough space. */
> + if (has_not_enough_free_secs(sbi, 0, 0)) {
> + gc_type = FG_GC;
> +
> /*
> * For example, if there are many prefree_segments below given
> * threshold, we can make them free by checkpoint. Then, we
> @@ -1840,8 +1843,6 @@ int f2fs_gc(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, struct f2fs_gc_control *gc_control)
> if (ret)
> goto stop;
> }
> - if (has_not_enough_free_secs(sbi, 0, 0))
> - gc_type = FG_GC;
> }
>
> /* f2fs_balance_fs doesn't need to do BG_GC in critical path. */
> @@ -1868,19 +1869,14 @@ int f2fs_gc(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, struct f2fs_gc_control *gc_control)
> if (seg_freed == f2fs_usable_segs_in_sec(sbi, segno))
> sec_freed++;
>
> - if (gc_type == FG_GC)
> + if (gc_type == FG_GC) {
> sbi->cur_victim_sec = NULL_SEGNO;
>
> - if (gc_control->init_gc_type == FG_GC ||
> - !has_not_enough_free_secs(sbi,
> - (gc_type == FG_GC) ? sec_freed : 0, 0)) {
> - if (gc_type == FG_GC && sec_freed < gc_control->nr_free_secs)
> - goto go_gc_more;
> - goto stop;
> - }
> -
> - /* FG_GC stops GC by skip_count */
> - if (gc_type == FG_GC) {
> + if (!has_not_enough_free_secs(sbi, sec_freed, 0)) {
> + if (sec_freed < gc_control->nr_free_secs)
> + goto go_gc_more;
> + goto stop;
> + }
> if (sbi->skipped_gc_rwsem)
> skipped_round++;
> round++;
> @@ -1889,6 +1885,8 @@ int f2fs_gc(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, struct f2fs_gc_control *gc_control)
> ret = f2fs_write_checkpoint(sbi, &cpc);
> goto stop;
> }
> + } else if (!has_not_enough_free_secs(sbi, 0, 0)) {
> + goto stop;
> }
>
> __get_secs_required(sbi, NULL, &upper_secs, NULL);
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