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| author |   Hyunchul Lee <cheol.lee@lge.com> | 2018-01-31 11:36:59 +0900 |
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| committer |   Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> | 2018-03-13 08:05:37 +0900 |
| commit | 8b3a0ca0fde161c9716d4f0e8d81bf30fc004604 (patch) | |
| tree | cf68663de719b8b06d3c28b74f2a1927382e3cc5 /Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt | |
| parent | f2fs: support passing down write hints to block layer with F2FS policy (diff) | |
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f2fs: Add the 'whint_mode' mount option to f2fs documentation
Signed-off-by: Hyunchul Lee <cheol.lee@lge.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: Add the write-hint policy in f2fs doc.]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt | 66 |
1 files changed, 66 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt index 13c2ff034348..0caf7da0a532 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt @@ -174,6 +174,12 @@ offgrpjquota Turn off group journelled quota. offprjjquota Turn off project journelled quota. quota Enable plain user disk quota accounting. noquota Disable all plain disk quota option. +whint_mode=%s Control which write hints are passed down to block + layer. This supports "off", "user-based", and + "fs-based". In "off" mode (default), f2fs does not pass + down hints. In "user-based" mode, f2fs tries to pass + down hints given by users. And in "fs-based" mode, f2fs + passes down hints with its policy. ================================================================================ DEBUGFS ENTRIES @@ -611,3 +617,63 @@ algorithm. In order to identify whether the data in the victim segment are valid or not, F2FS manages a bitmap. Each bit represents the validity of a block, and the bitmap is composed of a bit stream covering whole blocks in main area. + +Write-hint Policy +----------------- + +1) whint_mode=off. F2FS only passes down WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET. + +2) whint_mode=user-based. F2FS tries to pass down hints given by +users. + +User F2FS Block +---- ---- ----- + META WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET + HOT_NODE " + WARM_NODE " + COLD_NODE " +*ioctl(COLD) COLD_DATA WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME +*extension list " " + +-- buffered io +WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME COLD_DATA WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME +WRITE_LIFE_SHORT HOT_DATA WRITE_LIFE_SHORT +WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET WARM_DATA WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET +WRITE_LIFE_NONE " " +WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM " " +WRITE_LIFE_LONG " " + +-- direct io +WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME COLD_DATA WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME +WRITE_LIFE_SHORT HOT_DATA WRITE_LIFE_SHORT +WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET WARM_DATA WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET +WRITE_LIFE_NONE " WRITE_LIFE_NONE +WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM " WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM +WRITE_LIFE_LONG " WRITE_LIFE_LONG + +3) whint_mode=fs-based. F2FS passes down hints with its policy. + +User F2FS Block +---- ---- ----- + META WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM; + HOT_NODE WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET + WARM_NODE " + COLD_NODE WRITE_LIFE_NONE +ioctl(COLD) COLD_DATA WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME +extension list " " + +-- buffered io +WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME COLD_DATA WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME +WRITE_LIFE_SHORT HOT_DATA WRITE_LIFE_SHORT +WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET WARM_DATA WRITE_LIFE_LONG +WRITE_LIFE_NONE " " +WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM " " +WRITE_LIFE_LONG " " + +-- direct io +WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME COLD_DATA WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME +WRITE_LIFE_SHORT HOT_DATA WRITE_LIFE_SHORT +WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET WARM_DATA WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET +WRITE_LIFE_NONE " WRITE_LIFE_NONE +WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM " WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM +WRITE_LIFE_LONG " WRITE_LIFE_LONG |