Re: [PATCH] f2fs: add sysfs entry to avoid FUA

[Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>]

On 05/27, Eric Biggers wrote:
> [+Cc linux-block for FUA, and linux-xfs for iomap]
> 
> On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 01:59:55PM -0700, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> > Some UFS storage gives slower performance on FUA than write+cache_flush.
> > Let's give a way to manage it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
> 
> Should the driver even be saying that it has FUA support in this case?  If the
> driver didn't claim FUA support, that would also solve this problem.

I think there's still some benefit to use FUA such as small chunk writes
for checkpoint.

> 
> > ---
> >  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs | 7 +++++++
> >  fs/f2fs/data.c                          | 2 ++
> >  fs/f2fs/f2fs.h                          | 1 +
> >  fs/f2fs/sysfs.c                         | 2 ++
> >  4 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs
> > index 9b583dd0298b..cd96b09d7182 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs
> > +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs
> > @@ -434,6 +434,7 @@ Date:		April 2020
> >  Contact:	"Daeho Jeong" <daehojeong@google.com>
> >  Description:	Give a way to change iostat_period time. 3secs by default.
> >  		The new iostat trace gives stats gap given the period.
> > +
> >  What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/max_io_bytes
> >  Date:		December 2020
> >  Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
> > @@ -442,6 +443,12 @@ Description:	This gives a control to limit the bio size in f2fs.
> >  		whereas, if it has a certain bytes value, f2fs won't submit a
> >  		bio larger than that size.
> >  
> > +What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/no_fua_dio
> > +Date:		May 2022
> > +Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
> > +Description:	This gives a signal to iomap, which should not use FUA for
> > +		direct IOs. Default: 0.
> 
> iomap is an implementation detail, so it shouldn't be mentioned in UAPI
> documentation.  UAPI documentation should describe user-visible behavior only.

Ok.

> 
> > +
> >  What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/stat/sb_status
> >  Date:		December 2020
> >  Contact:	"Chao Yu" <yuchao0@huawei.com>
> > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/data.c b/fs/f2fs/data.c
> > index f5f2b7233982..23486486eab2 100644
> > --- a/fs/f2fs/data.c
> > +++ b/fs/f2fs/data.c
> > @@ -4153,6 +4153,8 @@ static int f2fs_iomap_begin(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t length,
> >  	if ((inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC) ||
> >  	    offset + length > i_size_read(inode))
> >  		iomap->flags |= IOMAP_F_DIRTY;
> > +	if (F2FS_I_SB(inode)->no_fua_dio)
> > +		iomap->flags |= IOMAP_F_DIRTY;
> 
> This is overloading the IOMAP_F_DIRTY flag to mean something other than dirty.
> Perhaps this flag needs to be renamed, or a new flag should be added?

I'm not sure it's acceptable to add another flag for f2fs only.

> 
> > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> > index e10838879538..c2400ea0080b 100644
> > --- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> > +++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> > @@ -1671,6 +1671,7 @@ struct f2fs_sb_info {
> >  	int dir_level;				/* directory level */
> >  	int readdir_ra;				/* readahead inode in readdir */
> >  	u64 max_io_bytes;			/* max io bytes to merge IOs */
> > +	int no_fua_dio;				/* avoid FUA in DIO */
> 
> Make this a bool?

Done.

> 
> > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c b/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c
> > index 4c50aedd5144..24d628ca92cc 100644
> > --- a/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c
> > +++ b/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c
> > @@ -771,6 +771,7 @@ F2FS_RW_ATTR(F2FS_SBI, f2fs_sb_info, iostat_period_ms, iostat_period_ms);
> >  #endif
> >  F2FS_RW_ATTR(F2FS_SBI, f2fs_sb_info, readdir_ra, readdir_ra);
> >  F2FS_RW_ATTR(F2FS_SBI, f2fs_sb_info, max_io_bytes, max_io_bytes);
> > +F2FS_RW_ATTR(F2FS_SBI, f2fs_sb_info, no_fua_dio, no_fua_dio);
> >  F2FS_RW_ATTR(F2FS_SBI, f2fs_sb_info, gc_pin_file_thresh, gc_pin_file_threshold);
> >  F2FS_RW_ATTR(F2FS_SBI, f2fs_super_block, extension_list, extension_list);
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_F2FS_FAULT_INJECTION
> > @@ -890,6 +891,7 @@ static struct attribute *f2fs_attrs[] = {
> >  #endif
> >  	ATTR_LIST(readdir_ra),
> >  	ATTR_LIST(max_io_bytes),
> > +	ATTR_LIST(no_fua_dio),
> 
> Where is it validated that only valid values (0 or 1) can be written to this
> file?

Added.

> 
> - Eric