Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH v5 1/2] f2fs: introduce checkpoint=merge mount option

[Daeho Jeong <daeho43@gmail.com>]

Got it~! :)

2021년 1월 22일 (금) 오전 9:55, Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>님이 작성:
>
> If there is no update in v5, it will be better to include my Reviewed-by
> tag, please note that. :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> On 2021/1/21 21:45, Daeho Jeong wrote:
> > From: Daeho Jeong<daehojeong@google.com>
> >
> > We've added a new mount option "checkpoint=merge", which creates a
> > kernel daemon and makes it to merge concurrent checkpoint requests as
> > much as possible to eliminate redundant checkpoint issues. Plus, we
> > can eliminate the sluggish issue caused by slow checkpoint operation
> > when the checkpoint is done in a process context in a cgroup having
> > low i/o budget and cpu shares. To make this do better, we set the
> > default i/o priority of the kernel daemon to "3", to give one higher
> > priority than other kernel threads. The below verification result
> > explains this.
> > The basic idea has come fromhttps://opensource.samsung.com.
> >
> > [Verification]
> > Android Pixel Device(ARM64, 7GB RAM, 256GB UFS)
> > Create two I/O cgroups (fg w/ weight 100, bg w/ wight 20)
> > Set "strict_guarantees" to "1" in BFQ tunables
> >
> > In "fg" cgroup,
> > - thread A => trigger 1000 checkpoint operations
> >    "for i in `seq 1 1000`; do touch test_dir1/file; fsync test_dir1;
> >     done"
> > - thread B => gererating async. I/O
> >    "fio --rw=write --numjobs=1 --bs=128k --runtime=3600 --time_based=1
> >         --filename=test_img --name=test"
> >
> > In "bg" cgroup,
> > - thread C => trigger repeated checkpoint operations
> >    "echo $$ > /dev/blkio/bg/tasks; while true; do touch test_dir2/file;
> >     fsync test_dir2; done"
> >
> > We've measured thread A's execution time.
> >
> > [ w/o patch ]
> > Elapsed Time: Avg. 68 seconds
> > [ w/  patch ]
> > Elapsed Time: Avg. 48 seconds
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong<daehojeong@google.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Sungjong Seo<sj1557.seo@samsung.com>


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