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authorNamjae Jeon2013-08-04 16:10:15 +0200
committerJaegeuk Kim2013-08-06 15:00:18 +0200
commitd2dc095f4280ad5fdea33769e8e119fd16648426 (patch)
treef97a7bd3a06822c463e678770fb63dab52d0bc94 /fs/f2fs/gc.c
parentf2fs: add sysfs support for controlling the gc_thread (diff)
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f2fs: add sysfs entries to select the gc policy
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/f2fs/gc.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/f2fs/gc.c16
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.c b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
index 60d4f674efa7..d286d8be8e68 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/gc.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ int start_gc_thread(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
gc_th->max_sleep_time = DEF_GC_THREAD_MAX_SLEEP_TIME;
gc_th->no_gc_sleep_time = DEF_GC_THREAD_NOGC_SLEEP_TIME;
+ gc_th->gc_idle = 0;
+
sbi->gc_thread = gc_th;
init_waitqueue_head(&sbi->gc_thread->gc_wait_queue_head);
sbi->gc_thread->f2fs_gc_task = kthread_run(gc_thread_func, sbi,
@@ -130,9 +132,17 @@ void stop_gc_thread(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
sbi->gc_thread = NULL;
}
-static int select_gc_type(int gc_type)
+static int select_gc_type(struct f2fs_gc_kthread *gc_th, int gc_type)
{
- return (gc_type == BG_GC) ? GC_CB : GC_GREEDY;
+ int gc_mode = (gc_type == BG_GC) ? GC_CB : GC_GREEDY;
+
+ if (gc_th && gc_th->gc_idle) {
+ if (gc_th->gc_idle == 1)
+ gc_mode = GC_CB;
+ else if (gc_th->gc_idle == 2)
+ gc_mode = GC_GREEDY;
+ }
+ return gc_mode;
}
static void select_policy(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, int gc_type,
@@ -145,7 +155,7 @@ static void select_policy(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, int gc_type,
p->dirty_segmap = dirty_i->dirty_segmap[type];
p->ofs_unit = 1;
} else {
- p->gc_mode = select_gc_type(gc_type);
+ p->gc_mode = select_gc_type(sbi->gc_thread, gc_type);
p->dirty_segmap = dirty_i->dirty_segmap[DIRTY];
p->ofs_unit = sbi->segs_per_sec;
}