This patch adds an sysfs entry to control dir_level used by the large directory.
The description of this entry is:
dir_level This parameter controls the directory level to
support large directory. If a directory has a
number of files, it can reduce the file lookup
latency by increasing this dir_level value.
Otherwise, it needs to decrease this value to
reduce the space overhead. The default value is 0.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
At the end of the recovery procedure, write_checkpoint is called and updates
the cp count which is managed by f2fs stat.
But, previously build_stat() is called after the recovery procedure, which
results in:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000012c
IP: [<ffffffffa03b1030>] write_checkpoint+0x720/0xbc0 [f2fs]
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff810a6b44>] ? mark_held_locks+0x74/0x140
[<ffffffff8109a3e0>] ? __init_waitqueue_head+0x60/0x60
[<ffffffffa03bf036>] recover_fsync_data+0x656/0xf20 [f2fs]
[<ffffffff812ee3eb>] ? security_d_instantiate+0x1b/0x30
[<ffffffffa03aeb4d>] f2fs_fill_super+0x94d/0xa00 [f2fs]
[<ffffffff811a9825>] mount_bdev+0x1a5/0x1f0
[<ffffffff8114915e>] ? __get_free_pages+0xe/0x40
[<ffffffffa03ae200>] ? f2fs_remount+0x130/0x130 [f2fs]
[<ffffffffa03aa575>] f2fs_mount+0x15/0x20 [f2fs]
[<ffffffff811aa713>] mount_fs+0x43/0x1b0
[<ffffffff811c7124>] vfs_kern_mount+0x74/0x160
[<ffffffff811c5cb1>] ? __get_fs_type+0x51/0x60
[<ffffffff811c9727>] do_mount+0x237/0xb50
[<ffffffff811c936a>] ? copy_mount_options+0x3a/0x170
So, this patche changes the order of recovery_fsync_data() and
f2fs_build_stats().
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Fixed a variety of trivial checkpatch warnings. The only delta should
be some minor formatting on log strings that were split / too long.
Signed-off-by: Chris Fries <cfries@motorola.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Previously during SSR and GC, the maximum number of retrials to find a victim
segment was hard-coded by MAX_VICTIM_SEARCH, 4096 by default.
This number makes an effect on IO locality, when SSR mode is activated, which
results in performance fluctuation on some low-end devices.
If max_victim_search = 4, the victim will be searched like below.
("D" represents a dirty segment, and "*" indicates a selected victim segment.)
D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 D8 D9
[ * ]
[ * ]
[ * ]
[ ....]
This patch adds a sysfs entry to control the number dynamically through:
/sys/fs/f2fs/$dev/max_victim_search
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch introduces new sysfs entries for users to control the policy of
in-place-updates, namely IPU, in f2fs.
Sometimes f2fs suffers from performance degradation due to its out-of-place
update policy that produces many additional node block writes.
If the storage performance is very dependant on the amount of data writes
instead of IO patterns, we'd better drop this out-of-place update policy.
This patch suggests 5 polcies and their triggering conditions as follows.
[sysfs entry name = ipu_policy]
0: F2FS_IPU_FORCE all the time,
1: F2FS_IPU_SSR if SSR mode is activated,
2: F2FS_IPU_UTIL if FS utilization is over threashold,
3: F2FS_IPU_SSR_UTIL if SSR mode is activated and FS utilization is over
threashold,
4: F2FS_IPU_DISABLE disable IPU. (=default option)
[sysfs entry name = min_ipu_util]
This parameter controls the threshold to trigger in-place-updates.
The number indicates percentage of the filesystem utilization, and used by
F2FS_IPU_UTIL and F2FS_IPU_SSR_UTIL policies.
For more details, see need_inplace_update() in segment.h.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch introduces f2fs_io_info to mitigate the complex parameter list.
struct f2fs_io_info {
enum page_type type; /* contains DATA/NODE/META/META_FLUSH */
int rw; /* contains R/RS/W/WS */
int rw_flag; /* contains REQ_META/REQ_PRIO */
}
1. f2fs_write_data_pages
- DATA
- WRITE_SYNC is set when wbc->WB_SYNC_ALL.
2. sync_node_pages
- NODE
- WRITE_SYNC all the time
3. sync_meta_pages
- META
- WRITE_SYNC all the time
- REQ_META | REQ_PRIO all the time
** f2fs_submit_merged_bio() handles META_FLUSH.
4. ra_nat_pages, ra_sit_pages, ra_sum_pages
- META
- READ_SYNC
Cc: Fan Li <fanofcode.li@samsung.com>
Cc: Changman Lee <cm224.lee@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch adds unlikely() macro into the most of codes.
The basic rule is to add that when:
- checking unusual errors,
- checking page mappings,
- and the other unlikely conditions.
Change log from v1:
- Don't add unlikely for the NULL test and error test: advised by Andi Kleen.
Cc: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Use inner macro GFP_F2FS_ZERO to instead of GFP_NOFS | __GFP_ZERO for
simplification of code.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
The recover_orphan_inodes() returns no error all the time, so we don't need to
check its errors.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: add description]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Add a mount option: inline_data. If the mount option is set,
data of New created small files can be stored in their inode.
Signed-off-by: Huajun Li <huajun.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Weihong Xu <weihong.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
For better read performance, we add a new function to support for merging
contiguous read as the one for write.
v1-->v2:
o add declarations here as Gu Zheng suggested.
o use new structure f2fs_bio_info introduced by Jaegeuk Kim.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
The f2fs has three bio types, NODE, DATA, and META, and manages some data
structures per each bio types.
The codes are a little bit messy, thus, this patch introduces a bio array
which groups individual data structures as follows.
struct f2fs_bio_info {
struct bio *bio; /* bios to merge */
sector_t last_block_in_bio; /* last block number */
struct mutex io_mutex; /* mutex for bio */
};
struct f2fs_sb_info {
...
struct f2fs_bio_info write_io[NR_PAGE_TYPE]; /* for write bios */
...
};
The code changes from this new data structure are trivial.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch removes an unnecessary semaphore (i.e., sbi->bio_sem).
There is no reason to use the semaphore when f2fs submits read and write IOs.
Instead, let's use a write mutex and cover the sbi->bio[] by the lock.
Change log from v1:
o split write_mutex suggested by Chao Yu
Chao described,
"All DATA/NODE/META bio buffers in superblock is protected by
'sbi->write_mutex', but each bio buffer area is independent, So we
should split write_mutex to three for DATA/NODE/META."
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
If frequent small discards are issued to the device, the performance would
be degraded significantly.
So, this patch adds a sysfs entry to control the number of discards to be
issued during a checkpoint procedure.
By default, f2fs does not issue any small discards, which means max_discards
is zero.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch adds a slab cache entry for small discards.
Each entry consists of:
struct discard_entry {
struct list_head list; /* list head */
block_t blkaddr; /* block address to be discarded */
int len; /* # of consecutive blocks of the discard */
};
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
If we failed to init&add kobject when fill_super, stats info and proc object of
f2fs will not be released.
We should free them before we finish fill_super.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
use genernal method supported by kernel
o changes from v1
If any waiter exists at end io, wake up it.
Signed-off-by: Changman Lee <cm224.lee@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch adds a control method in sysfs to reclaim prefree segments.
Signed-off-by: Changman Lee <cm224.lee@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Introduce function read_raw_super_block() to hide reading raw super block and
the retry routine if the first sb is invalid.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch removes the logic previously introduced to address the starvation
on cp_rwsem.
One potential there-in bug is that we should cover the wait.list with spin_lock,
but the previous code broke this rule.
And, actually current rwsem handles this starvation issue reasonably, so that we
didn't need to do this before neither.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
During the f2fs_put_super procedure, we don't need to conduct checkpoint all
the time, since we don't need to do that if superblock is clean.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
The current f2fs code errors if the xattr or acl options are passed when
remounting. This is important in a typical scenario where f2fs is mounted
as a "ro" root file-system by the boot loader and then the init process wants
to remount it "rw" with the "remount,rw" option.
Signed-off-by: Kelly Anderson <kelly@xilka.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
The fs_locks is used to block other ops(ex, recovery) when doing checkpoint.
And each other operate routine(besides checkpoint) needs to acquire a fs_lock,
there is a terrible problem here, if these are too many concurrency threads acquiring
fs_lock, so that they will block each other and may lead to some performance problem,
but this is not the phenomenon we want to see.
Though there are some optimization patches introduced to enhance the usage of fs_lock,
but the thorough solution is using a *rw_sem* to replace the fs_lock.
Checkpoint routine takes write_sem, and other ops take read_sem, so that we can block
other ops(ex, recovery) when doing checkpoint, and other ops will not disturb each other,
this can avoid the problem described above completely.
Because of the weakness of rw_sem, the above change may introduce a potential problem
that the checkpoint thread might get starved if other threads are intensively locking
the read semaphore for I/O.(Pointed out by Xu Jin)
In order to avoid this, a wait_list is introduced, the appending read semaphore ops
will be dropped into the wait_list if checkpoint thread is waiting for write semaphore,
and will be waked up when checkpoint thread gives up write semaphore.
Thanks to Kim's previous review and test, and will be very glad to see other guys'
performance tests about this patch.
V2:
-fix the potential starvation problem.
-use more suitable func name suggested by Xu Jin.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: adjust minor coding standard]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch enables the number of direct pointers inside on-disk inode block to
be changed dynamically according to the size of inline xattr space.
The number of direct pointers, ADDRS_PER_INODE, can be changed only if the file
has inline xattr flag.
The number of direct pointers that will be used by inline xattrs is defined as
F2FS_INLINE_XATTR_ADDRS.
Current patch assigns F2FS_INLINE_XATTR_ADDRS to 0 temporarily.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch adds basic inode flags for inline xattrs, F2FS_INLINE_XATTR,
and add a mount option, inline_xattr, which is enabled when xattr is set.
If the mount option is enabled, all the files are marked with the inline_xattrs
flag.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Fix to return -ENOMEM in the kset create and add error handling
case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.
Introduced by commit b59d0bae6c.
(f2fs: add sysfs support for controlling the gc_thread)
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Acked-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: merge the patch with previous modification]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
When any of the caches create fails in init_f2fs_fs(), the other caches which are
create successful should be free.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Hongjiang <zhaohongjiang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch should resolve the following error reported by kbuild test robot.
All error/warnings:
In file included from fs/f2fs/dir.c:13:0:
>> fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:435:17: error: field 's_kobj' has incomplete type
struct kobject s_kobj;
The failure was caused by missing the kobject header file in dir.c.
So, this patch move the header file to the right location, f2fs.h.
CC: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Add sysfs entry gc_idle to control the gc policy. Where
gc_idle = 1 corresponds to selecting a cost benefit approach,
while gc_idle = 2 corresponds to selecting a greedy approach
to garbage collection. The selection is mutually exclusive one
approach will work at any point. If gc_idle = 0, then this
option is disabled.
Cc: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Kumar <pankaj.km@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: change the select_gc_type() flow slightly]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Add sysfs entries to control the timing parameters for
f2fs gc thread.
Various Sysfs options introduced are:
gc_min_sleep_time: Min Sleep time for GC in ms
gc_max_sleep_time: Max Sleep time for GC in ms
gc_no_gc_sleep_time: Default Sleep time for GC in ms
Cc: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Kumar <pankaj.km@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: fix an umount bug and some minor changes]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Add the f2fs_remount function call which will be used
during the filesystem remounting. This function
will help us to change the mount options specific to
f2fs.
Also modify the f2fs background_gc mount option, which
will allow the user to dynamically trun on/off the
garbage collection in f2fs based on the background_gc
value. If background_gc=on, Garbage collection will
be turned off & if background_gc=off, Garbage collection
will be truned on.
By default the garbage collection is on in f2fs.
Change Log:
v2: Incorporated the review comments by Gu Zheng.
Removing the restore part for VFS flags
Updating comments with proper flag conditions
Display GC background option as ON/OFF
Revised conditions to stop GC in case of remount
v1: Initial changes for adding remount_fs callback
support.
Cc: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Kumar <pankaj.km@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: change /** with /* for the coding style]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
If update_inode is called, we don't need to do write_inode.
So, let's use a *dirty* flag for each inode.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
In f2fs_fill_super(), set sb->s_fs_info before calling parse_options(), then we can get
f2fs_sb_info via F2FS_SB(sb) in parse_options().
So that the second argument "sbi" of func parse_options() is no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch-set includes the following major enhancement patches.
o introduce a new gloabl lock scheme
o add tracepoints on several major functions
o fix the overall cleaning process focused on victim selection
o apply the block plugging to merge IOs as much as possible
o enhance management of free nids and its list
o enhance the readahead mode for node pages
o address several cretical deadlock conditions
o reduce lock_page calls
The other minor bug fixes and enhancements are as follows.
o calculation mistakes: overflow
o bio types: READ, READA, and READ_SYNC
o fix the recovery flow, data races, and null pointer errors
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Merge tag 'f2fs-for-v3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
"This patch-set includes the following major enhancement patches.
- introduce a new gloabl lock scheme
- add tracepoints on several major functions
- fix the overall cleaning process focused on victim selection
- apply the block plugging to merge IOs as much as possible
- enhance management of free nids and its list
- enhance the readahead mode for node pages
- address several cretical deadlock conditions
- reduce lock_page calls
The other minor bug fixes and enhancements are as follows.
- calculation mistakes: overflow
- bio types: READ, READA, and READ_SYNC
- fix the recovery flow, data races, and null pointer errors"
* tag 'f2fs-for-v3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (68 commits)
f2fs: cover free_nid management with spin_lock
f2fs: optimize scan_nat_page()
f2fs: code cleanup for scan_nat_page() and build_free_nids()
f2fs: bugfix for alloc_nid_failed()
f2fs: recover when journal contains deleted files
f2fs: continue to mount after failing recovery
f2fs: avoid deadlock during evict after f2fs_gc
f2fs: modify the number of issued pages to merge IOs
f2fs: remove useless #include <linux/proc_fs.h> as we're now using sysfs as debug entry.
f2fs: fix inconsistent using of NM_WOUT_THRESHOLD
f2fs: check truncation of mapping after lock_page
f2fs: enhance alloc_nid and build_free_nids flows
f2fs: add a tracepoint on f2fs_new_inode
f2fs: check nid == 0 in add_free_nid
f2fs: add REQ_META about metadata requests for submit
f2fs: give a chance to merge IOs by IO scheduler
f2fs: avoid frequent background GC
f2fs: add tracepoints to debug checkpoint request
f2fs: add tracepoints for write page operations
f2fs: add tracepoints to debug the block allocation
...
When unable to roll forward the journal, we shouldn't bail out and
not mount, we should continue to attempt the mount. Bad recovery data
is likely unrecoverable at this point, and requiring the user to try
to mount again doesn't solve any issues.
Signed-off-by: Chris Fries <C.Fries@motorola.com>
Reviewed-by: Russell Knize <rknize2@motorola.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Hrycay <jason.hrycay@motorola.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
o Deadlock case #1
Thread 1:
- writeback_sb_inodes
- do_writepages
- f2fs_write_data_pages
- write_cache_pages
- f2fs_write_data_page
- f2fs_balance_fs
- wait mutex_lock(gc_mutex)
Thread 2:
- f2fs_balance_fs
- mutex_lock(gc_mutex)
- f2fs_gc
- f2fs_iget
- wait iget_locked(inode->i_lock)
Thread 3:
- do_unlinkat
- iput
- lock(inode->i_lock)
- evict
- inode_wait_for_writeback
o Deadlock case #2
Thread 1:
- __writeback_single_inode
: set I_SYNC
- do_writepages
- f2fs_write_data_page
- f2fs_balance_fs
- f2fs_gc
- iput
- evict
- inode_wait_for_writeback(I_SYNC)
In order to avoid this, even though iput is called with the zero-reference
count, we need to stop the eviction procedure if the inode is on writeback.
So this patch links f2fs_drop_inode which checks the I_SYNC flag.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Add tracepoints in f2fs for tracing the syncing
operations like filesystem sync, file sync enter/exit.
It will helf to trace the code under debugging scenarios.
Also add tracepoints for tracing the various inode operations
like building inode, eviction of inode, link/unlike of
inodes.
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Kumar <pankaj.km@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[Jaegeuk: combine and modify the tracepoint structures]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Fix to return a negative error code from the error handling
case instead of 0, as returned elsewhere in this function.
Introduce by commit c0d39e(f2fs: fix return values from validate superblock)
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Acked-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
In the previous version, f2fs uses global locks according to the usage types,
such as directory operations, block allocation, block write, and so on.
Reference the following lock types in f2fs.h.
enum lock_type {
RENAME, /* for renaming operations */
DENTRY_OPS, /* for directory operations */
DATA_WRITE, /* for data write */
DATA_NEW, /* for data allocation */
DATA_TRUNC, /* for data truncate */
NODE_NEW, /* for node allocation */
NODE_TRUNC, /* for node truncate */
NODE_WRITE, /* for node write */
NR_LOCK_TYPE,
};
In that case, we lose the performance under the multi-threading environment,
since every types of operations must be conducted one at a time.
In order to address the problem, let's share the locks globally with a mutex
array regardless of any types.
So, let users grab a mutex and perform their jobs in parallel as much as
possbile.
For this, I propose a new global lock scheme as follows.
0. Data structure
- f2fs_sb_info -> mutex_lock[NR_GLOBAL_LOCKS]
- f2fs_sb_info -> node_write
1. mutex_lock_op(sbi)
- try to get an avaiable lock from the array.
- returns the index of the gottern lock variable.
2. mutex_unlock_op(sbi, index of the lock)
- unlock the given index of the lock.
3. mutex_lock_all(sbi)
- grab all the locks in the array before the checkpoint.
4. mutex_unlock_all(sbi)
- release all the locks in the array after checkpoint.
5. block_operations()
- call mutex_lock_all()
- sync_dirty_dir_inodes()
- grab node_write
- sync_node_pages()
Note that,
the pairs of mutex_lock_op()/mutex_unlock_op() and
mutex_lock_all()/mutex_unlock_all() should be used together.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
In order to do GC more reliably, I'd like to lock the vicitm summary page
until its GC is completed, and also prevent any checkpoint process.
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch removes a bitmap for victim segments selected by foreground GC, and
modifies the other bitmap for victim segments selected by background GC.
1) foreground GC bitmap
: We don't need to manage this, since we just only one previous victim section
number instead of the whole victim history.
The f2fs uses the victim section number in order not to allocate currently
GC'ed section to current active logs.
2) background GC bitmap
: This bitmap is used to avoid selecting victims repeatedly by background GCs.
In addition, the victims are able to be selected by foreground GCs, since
there is no need to read victim blocks during foreground GCs.
By the fact that the foreground GC reclaims segments in a section unit, it'd
be better to manage this bitmap based on the section granularity.
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Gu Zheng