[PATCH 10/12] f2fs: detect congestion of flush command issues

[Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>]

If flush commands do not incur any congestion, we don't need to throw that to
dispatching queue which causes unnecessary latency.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
---
 fs/f2fs/f2fs.h    | 1 +
 fs/f2fs/segment.c | 7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
index 917cc9b..97cd3c8 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
+++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
@@ -603,6 +603,7 @@ struct flush_cmd {
 struct flush_cmd_control {
 	struct task_struct *f2fs_issue_flush;	/* flush thread */
 	wait_queue_head_t flush_wait_queue;	/* waiting queue for wake-up */
+	atomic_t submit_flush;			/* # of issued flushes */
 	struct llist_head issue_list;		/* list for command issue */
 	struct llist_node *dispatch_list;	/* list for command dispatch */
 };
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.c b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
index 77dc929..34a9159 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/segment.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
@@ -433,24 +433,28 @@ int f2fs_issue_flush(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 	if (test_opt(sbi, NOBARRIER))
 		return 0;
 
-	if (!test_opt(sbi, FLUSH_MERGE)) {
+	if (!test_opt(sbi, FLUSH_MERGE) || !atomic_read(&fcc->submit_flush)) {
 		struct bio *bio = f2fs_bio_alloc(0);
 		int ret;
 
+		atomic_inc(&fcc->submit_flush);
 		bio->bi_bdev = sbi->sb->s_bdev;
 		ret = submit_bio_wait(WRITE_FLUSH, bio);
+		atomic_dec(&fcc->submit_flush);
 		bio_put(bio);
 		return ret;
 	}
 
 	init_completion(&cmd.wait);
 
+	atomic_inc(&fcc->submit_flush);
 	llist_add(&cmd.llnode, &fcc->issue_list);
 
 	if (!fcc->dispatch_list)
 		wake_up(&fcc->flush_wait_queue);
 
 	wait_for_completion(&cmd.wait);
+	atomic_dec(&fcc->submit_flush);
 
 	return cmd.ret;
 }
@@ -464,6 +468,7 @@ int create_flush_cmd_control(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 	fcc = kzalloc(sizeof(struct flush_cmd_control), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!fcc)
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	atomic_set(&fcc->submit_flush, 0);
 	init_waitqueue_head(&fcc->flush_wait_queue);
 	init_llist_head(&fcc->issue_list);
 	SM_I(sbi)->cmd_control_info = fcc;
-- 
2.6.3