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From: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: add sysfs entry to avoid FUA
Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 13:15:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YpZ3WI/Vjgk/CwFE@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YpGtDhV7V7gDk430@infradead.org>

On 05/27, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 06:06:08PM -0700, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> > I think there's still some benefit to use FUA such as small chunk writes
> > for checkpoint.
> 
> Did you measure if there is?  Because some SSDs basically implemented
> FUA as an implied flush after the write, in which case it would not
> really help there either (but also not hurt).
> 
> But as the previous two maintainers already said - this needs quirking
> at the driver layer, not in the submitter.

Thanks, I indeed measured this using UFS, and it turned out cache_flush
is better than FUA all the time like this. Hence, I posted a quirk [1].

Write(us/KB)	4	64	256	1024	2048
FUA		873.792	754.604	995.624	1011.67	1067.99
CACHE_FLUSH	824.703	712.98	800.307	1019.5	1037.37

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-scsi/20220531201053.3300018-1-jaegeuk@kernel.org/T/#u


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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-27 20:59 [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: add sysfs entry to avoid FUA Jaegeuk Kim
2022-05-27 21:33 ` Eric Biggers
2022-05-27 23:55   ` Dave Chinner
2022-05-28  0:26     ` Jaegeuk Kim
2022-05-28  5:12       ` Dave Chinner
2022-05-28  1:06   ` Jaegeuk Kim
2022-05-28  1:42     ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-05-28  5:03     ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-05-31 20:15       ` Jaegeuk Kim [this message]
2022-05-28  1:07 ` [f2fs-dev] [RFC PATCH v2] " Jaegeuk Kim

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