2024-02-08 00:21:31

by Jaegeuk Kim

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] f2fs: sysfs: support gc_io_aware

On 02/04, liujinbao1 wrote:
> From: liujinbao1 <[email protected]>
>
> Currently, IO can only be ignored when GC_URGENT_HIGH is set,
> and the default algorithm used for GC_URGENT_HIGH is greedy.
> It gives a way to enable/disable IO aware feature for background
> gc, so that we can tune background gc more precisely. e.g.
> force to disable IO aware and choose more suitable algorithm
> if there are large number of dirty segments.
>
> Signed-off-by: liujinbao1 <[email protected]>
> ---
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs | 6 ++++++
> fs/f2fs/gc.c | 3 ++-
> fs/f2fs/gc.h | 1 +
> fs/f2fs/sysfs.c | 9 +++++++++
> 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs
> index 36c3cb547901..47f02fa471fe 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs
> @@ -16,6 +16,12 @@ Contact: "Namjae Jeon" <[email protected]>
> Description: Controls the default sleep time for gc_thread. Time
> is in milliseconds.
>
> +What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_io_aware
> +Date: January 2024
> +Contact: "Jinbao Liu" <[email protected]>
> +Description: It controls to enable/disable IO aware feature for background gc.
> ++ By default, the value is 1 which indicates IO aware is on.
> +
> What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_idle
> Date: July 2013
> Contact: "Namjae Jeon" <[email protected]>
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.c b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
> index 309da3d0faff..0b75d37acc63 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/gc.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
> @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ static int gc_thread_func(void *data)
> goto next;
> }
>
> - if (!is_idle(sbi, GC_TIME)) {
> + if (gc_th->io_aware && !is_idle(sbi, GC_TIME)) {

This voids GC_URGENT_HIGH, which looks wrong?

> increase_sleep_time(gc_th, &wait_ms);
> f2fs_up_write(&sbi->gc_lock);
> stat_io_skip_bggc_count(sbi);
> @@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ int f2fs_start_gc_thread(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
> gc_th->min_sleep_time = DEF_GC_THREAD_MIN_SLEEP_TIME;
> gc_th->max_sleep_time = DEF_GC_THREAD_MAX_SLEEP_TIME;
> gc_th->no_gc_sleep_time = DEF_GC_THREAD_NOGC_SLEEP_TIME;
> + gc_th->io_aware = true;
>
> gc_th->gc_wake = false;
>
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.h b/fs/f2fs/gc.h
> index 28a00942802c..51d6ad26b76a 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/gc.h
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.h
> @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ struct f2fs_gc_kthread {
> unsigned int min_sleep_time;
> unsigned int max_sleep_time;
> unsigned int no_gc_sleep_time;
> + bool io_aware;
>
> /* for changing gc mode */
> bool gc_wake;
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c b/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c
> index 417fae96890f..e8d5667cfddd 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c
> @@ -516,6 +516,13 @@ static ssize_t __sbi_store(struct f2fs_attr *a,
> return count;
> }
>
> + if (!strcmp(a->attr.name, "gc_io_aware")) {
> + if (t > 1)
> + return -EINVAL;
> + *ui = t ? true : false;
> + return count;
> + }
> +
> if (!strcmp(a->attr.name, "migration_granularity")) {
> if (t == 0 || t > sbi->segs_per_sec)
> return -EINVAL;
> @@ -906,6 +913,7 @@ GC_THREAD_RW_ATTR(gc_urgent_sleep_time, urgent_sleep_time);
> GC_THREAD_RW_ATTR(gc_min_sleep_time, min_sleep_time);
> GC_THREAD_RW_ATTR(gc_max_sleep_time, max_sleep_time);
> GC_THREAD_RW_ATTR(gc_no_gc_sleep_time, no_gc_sleep_time);
> +GC_THREAD_RW_ATTR(gc_io_aware, io_aware);
>
> /* SM_INFO ATTR */
> SM_INFO_RW_ATTR(reclaim_segments, rec_prefree_segments);
> @@ -1061,6 +1069,7 @@ static struct attribute *f2fs_attrs[] = {
> ATTR_LIST(gc_min_sleep_time),
> ATTR_LIST(gc_max_sleep_time),
> ATTR_LIST(gc_no_gc_sleep_time),
> + ATTR_LIST(gc_io_aware),
> ATTR_LIST(gc_idle),
> ATTR_LIST(gc_urgent),
> ATTR_LIST(reclaim_segments),
> --
> 2.43.0