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From: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
To: Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: A lot of data written by cleaner for specific workload
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:06:11 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1390799171.25542.50.camel@kjgkr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFvQSYS88P3P-BiqzWE_QjLmuUQ_xScEGKrUdsnymi6jrVPK3A@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

2014-01-24 (금), 23:07 +0100, Clemens Eisserer:
> Hi Jaegeuk,
> 
> Thanks a lot for your reply.
> 
> > The f2fs_gc can be controlled by user through a sysfs entry.
> > So, could you look at the amount of written data by varying the gc
> > interval?
> >
> > cat /sys/fs/f2fs/$dev/gc_min_sleep_time
> > 30000
> > cat /sys/fs/f2fs/$dev/gc_max_sleep_time
> > 60000
> >
> > These values are represented in milliseconds.
> > If you don't want to write data as much as possibe and don't need a high
> > performance as the partition becomes full, you can just grow the
> > interval times.
> > The other way is that you can just add a mount option, "-o
> > background_gc=off", which turns off the f2fs_gc.
> 
> I'll try turning off the background-gc, as I can't find the
> sysfs-knobs in my system.
> 
> What I still wonder is, how the cleaner can write twice the data it
> reads (as in the above example).

If a data is selected to be moved, its node block, an index block,
should be read too.
So, I think it can be double.

I think the mount option would be "background_gc_off" in v3.10.
Thanks,

> 
> Regards, Clemens
> 
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-27  5:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-23 12:42 A lot of data written by cleaner for specific workload Clemens Eisserer
2014-01-23 23:41 ` Jaegeuk Kim
2014-01-24 22:07   ` Clemens Eisserer
2014-01-25 21:40     ` Clemens Eisserer
2014-01-27  5:06     ` Jaegeuk Kim [this message]

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