linux/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs
Jaegeuk Kim 853137cef4 f2fs: fix performance issue observed with multi-thread sequential read
This reverts the commit - "b93f771 - f2fs: remove writepages lock"
to fix the drop in sequential read throughput.

Test: ./tiotest -t 32 -d /data/tio_tmp -f 32 -b 524288 -k 1 -k 3 -L
device: UFS

Before -
read throughput: 185 MB/s
total read requests: 85177 (of these ~80000 are 4KB size requests).
total write requests: 2546 (of these ~2208 requests are written in 512KB).

After -
read throughput: 758 MB/s
total read requests: 2417 (of these ~2042 are 512KB reads).
total write requests: 2701 (of these ~2034 requests are written in 512KB).

Signed-off-by: Sahitya Tummala <stummala@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2018-08-20 23:13:42 -07:00

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What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_max_sleep_time
Date: July 2013
Contact: "Namjae Jeon" <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Description:
Controls the maximun sleep time for gc_thread. Time
is in milliseconds.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_min_sleep_time
Date: July 2013
Contact: "Namjae Jeon" <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Description:
Controls the minimum sleep time for gc_thread. Time
is in milliseconds.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_no_gc_sleep_time
Date: July 2013
Contact: "Namjae Jeon" <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Description:
Controls the default sleep time for gc_thread. Time
is in milliseconds.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_idle
Date: July 2013
Contact: "Namjae Jeon" <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Description:
Controls the victim selection policy for garbage collection.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/reclaim_segments
Date: October 2013
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Description:
Controls the issue rate of segment discard commands.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/ipu_policy
Date: November 2013
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Description:
Controls the in-place-update policy.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/min_ipu_util
Date: November 2013
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Description:
Controls the FS utilization condition for the in-place-update
policies.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/min_fsync_blocks
Date: September 2014
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Description:
Controls the dirty page count condition for the in-place-update
policies.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/min_seq_blocks
Date: August 2018
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Description:
Controls the dirty page count condition for batched sequential
writes in ->writepages.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/min_hot_blocks
Date: March 2017
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Description:
Controls the dirty page count condition for redefining hot data.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/min_ssr_sections
Date: October 2017
Contact: "Chao Yu" <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Description:
Controls the fee section threshold to trigger SSR allocation.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/max_small_discards
Date: November 2013
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Description:
Controls the issue rate of small discard commands.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/discard_granularity
Date: July 2017
Contact: "Chao Yu" <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Description:
Controls discard granularity of inner discard thread, inner thread
will not issue discards with size that is smaller than granularity.
The unit size is one block, now only support configuring in range
of [1, 512].
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/max_victim_search
Date: January 2014
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Description:
Controls the number of trials to find a victim segment.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/dir_level
Date: March 2014
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Description:
Controls the directory level for large directory.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/ram_thresh
Date: March 2014
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Description:
Controls the memory footprint used by f2fs.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/batched_trim_sections
Date: February 2015
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Description:
Controls the trimming rate in batch mode.
<deprecated>
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/cp_interval
Date: October 2015
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Description:
Controls the checkpoint timing.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/idle_interval
Date: January 2016
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Description:
Controls the idle timing.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/iostat_enable
Date: August 2017
Contact: "Chao Yu" <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Description:
Controls to enable/disable IO stat.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/ra_nid_pages
Date: October 2015
Contact: "Chao Yu" <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Description:
Controls the count of nid pages to be readaheaded.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/dirty_nats_ratio
Date: January 2016
Contact: "Chao Yu" <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Description:
Controls dirty nat entries ratio threshold, if current
ratio exceeds configured threshold, checkpoint will
be triggered for flushing dirty nat entries.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/lifetime_write_kbytes
Date: January 2016
Contact: "Shuoran Liu" <liushuoran@huawei.com>
Description:
Shows total written kbytes issued to disk.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/features
Date: July 2017
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Description:
Shows all enabled features in current device.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/inject_rate
Date: May 2016
Contact: "Sheng Yong" <shengyong1@huawei.com>
Description:
Controls the injection rate.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/inject_type
Date: May 2016
Contact: "Sheng Yong" <shengyong1@huawei.com>
Description:
Controls the injection type.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/reserved_blocks
Date: June 2017
Contact: "Chao Yu" <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Description:
Controls target reserved blocks in system, the threshold
is soft, it could exceed current available user space.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/current_reserved_blocks
Date: October 2017
Contact: "Yunlong Song" <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Contact: "Chao Yu" <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Description:
Shows current reserved blocks in system, it may be temporarily
smaller than target_reserved_blocks, but will gradually
increase to target_reserved_blocks when more free blocks are
freed by user later.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_urgent
Date: August 2017
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Description:
Do background GC agressively
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_urgent_sleep_time
Date: August 2017
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Description:
Controls sleep time of GC urgent mode
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/readdir_ra
Date: November 2017
Contact: "Sheng Yong" <shengyong1@huawei.com>
Description:
Controls readahead inode block in readdir.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/extension_list
Date: Feburary 2018
Contact: "Chao Yu" <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Description:
Used to control configure extension list:
- Query: cat /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/extension_list
- Add: echo '[h/c]extension' > /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/extension_list
- Del: echo '[h/c]!extension' > /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/extension_list
- [h] means add/del hot file extension
- [c] means add/del cold file extension