f2fs: add nobarrier mount option

This patch adds a mount option, nobarrier, in f2fs.
The assumption in here is that file system keeps the IO ordering, but
doesn't care about cache flushes inside the storages.

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Jaegeuk Kim 2014-07-23 09:57:31 -07:00
parent 9d84795077
commit 0f7b2abd18
5 changed files with 20 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -126,6 +126,11 @@ flush_merge Merge concurrent cache_flush commands as much as possible
to eliminate redundant command issues. If the underlying
device handles the cache_flush command relatively slowly,
recommend to enable this option.
nobarrier This option can be used if underlying storage guarantees
its cached data should be written to the novolatile area.
If this option is set, no cache_flush commands are issued
but f2fs still guarantees the write ordering of all the
data writes.
================================================================================
DEBUGFS ENTRIES

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@ -139,7 +139,10 @@ void f2fs_submit_merged_bio(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
/* change META to META_FLUSH in the checkpoint procedure */
if (type >= META_FLUSH) {
io->fio.type = META_FLUSH;
io->fio.rw = WRITE_FLUSH_FUA | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO;
if (test_opt(sbi, NOBARRIER))
io->fio.rw = WRITE_FLUSH | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO;
else
io->fio.rw = WRITE_FLUSH_FUA | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO;
}
__submit_merged_bio(io);
up_write(&io->io_rwsem);

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@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
#define F2FS_MOUNT_INLINE_XATTR 0x00000080
#define F2FS_MOUNT_INLINE_DATA 0x00000100
#define F2FS_MOUNT_FLUSH_MERGE 0x00000200
#define F2FS_MOUNT_NOBARRIER 0x00000400
#define clear_opt(sbi, option) (sbi->mount_opt.opt &= ~F2FS_MOUNT_##option)
#define set_opt(sbi, option) (sbi->mount_opt.opt |= F2FS_MOUNT_##option)

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@ -239,6 +239,9 @@ int f2fs_issue_flush(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
struct flush_cmd_control *fcc = SM_I(sbi)->cmd_control_info;
struct flush_cmd cmd;
if (test_opt(sbi, NOBARRIER))
return 0;
if (!test_opt(sbi, FLUSH_MERGE))
return blkdev_issue_flush(sbi->sb->s_bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);

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@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ enum {
Opt_inline_xattr,
Opt_inline_data,
Opt_flush_merge,
Opt_nobarrier,
Opt_err,
};
@ -69,6 +70,7 @@ static match_table_t f2fs_tokens = {
{Opt_inline_xattr, "inline_xattr"},
{Opt_inline_data, "inline_data"},
{Opt_flush_merge, "flush_merge"},
{Opt_nobarrier, "nobarrier"},
{Opt_err, NULL},
};
@ -339,6 +341,9 @@ static int parse_options(struct super_block *sb, char *options)
case Opt_flush_merge:
set_opt(sbi, FLUSH_MERGE);
break;
case Opt_nobarrier:
set_opt(sbi, NOBARRIER);
break;
default:
f2fs_msg(sb, KERN_ERR,
"Unrecognized mount option \"%s\" or missing value",
@ -544,6 +549,8 @@ static int f2fs_show_options(struct seq_file *seq, struct dentry *root)
seq_puts(seq, ",inline_data");
if (!f2fs_readonly(sbi->sb) && test_opt(sbi, FLUSH_MERGE))
seq_puts(seq, ",flush_merge");
if (test_opt(sbi, NOBARRIER))
seq_puts(seq, ",nobarrier");
seq_printf(seq, ",active_logs=%u", sbi->active_logs);
return 0;