In this round, we've focused on enhancing performance with regards to block
allocation, GC, and discard/in-place-update IO controls. There are a bunch
of clean-ups as well as minor bug fixes.
= Enhancement
- disable heap-based allocation by default
- issue small-sized discard commands by default
- change the policy of data hotness for logging
- distinguish IOs in terms of size and wbc type
- start SSR earlier to avoid foreground GC
- enhance data structures managing discard commands
- enhance in-place update flow
- add some more fault injection routines
- secure one more xattr entry
= Bug fix
- calculate victim cost for GC correctly
- remain correct victim segment number for GC
- race condition in nid allocator and initializer
- stale pointer produced by atomic_writes
- fix missing REQ_SYNC for flush commands
- handle missing errors in more corner cases
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Merge tag 'for-f2fs-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
"In this round, we've focused on enhancing performance with regards to
block allocation, GC, and discard/in-place-update IO controls. There
are a bunch of clean-ups as well as minor bug fixes.
Enhancements:
- disable heap-based allocation by default
- issue small-sized discard commands by default
- change the policy of data hotness for logging
- distinguish IOs in terms of size and wbc type
- start SSR earlier to avoid foreground GC
- enhance data structures managing discard commands
- enhance in-place update flow
- add some more fault injection routines
- secure one more xattr entry
Bug fixes:
- calculate victim cost for GC correctly
- remain correct victim segment number for GC
- race condition in nid allocator and initializer
- stale pointer produced by atomic_writes
- fix missing REQ_SYNC for flush commands
- handle missing errors in more corner cases"
* tag 'for-f2fs-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (111 commits)
f2fs: fix a mount fail for wrong next_scan_nid
f2fs: enhance scalability of trace macro
f2fs: relocate inode_{,un}lock in F2FS_IOC_SETFLAGS
f2fs: Make flush bios explicitely sync
f2fs: show available_nids in f2fs/status
f2fs: flush dirty nats periodically
f2fs: introduce CP_TRIMMED_FLAG to avoid unneeded discard
f2fs: allow cpc->reason to indicate more than one reason
f2fs: release cp and dnode lock before IPU
f2fs: shrink size of struct discard_cmd
f2fs: don't hold cmd_lock during waiting discard command
f2fs: nullify fio->encrypted_page for each writes
f2fs: sanity check segment count
f2fs: introduce valid_ipu_blkaddr to clean up
f2fs: lookup extent cache first under IPU scenario
f2fs: reconstruct code to write a data page
f2fs: introduce __wait_discard_cmd
f2fs: introduce __issue_discard_cmd
f2fs: enable small discard by default
f2fs: delay awaking discard thread
...