Hi,
2013-08-29 (목), 08:48 +0800, Jin Xu:
> From: Jin Xu <jinuxst...@gmail.com>
>
> This patch improves the foreground gc efficiency by optimizing the
> victim selection policy. With this optimization, the random re-write
> performance could increase up to 20%.
>
> For f2fs, foreground gc happens when disk is lack of free spaces,
> it selects dirty segments and moves valid blocks around for making
> more space available. The gc cost of a segment is determined by the
> valid blocks in the segment. The less the valid blocks, the higher
> the efficiency. The ideal victim segment is the one that has the
> most garbage blocks.
>
> Currently, it searches up to 20 dirty segments for a victim segment.
> The selected victim is not likely the best victim for gc when there
> are much more dirty segments. Why not searching more dirty segments
> for a better victim? The cost of searching dirty segments is
> negligible in comparison to moving blocks.
>
> In this patch, it does not search a constant number of dirty segments
> anymore, instead it calculates the number based on the total segments,
> dirty segments and a threshold. Following is the pseudo formula.
> ,-- nr_dirty_segments, if total_segments < threshold
> (# of search) = |
> `-- (nr_dirty_segments * threshold) / total_segments,
> Otherwise
Nice catch, but,
I don't understand why we search the # of segments in proportion to the
# of dirty segments.
How about the case where threshold = 10 and total_segments = 100000?
Or threshold = 1000000 and total_segments = 100?
For this, we need to define additional MIN/MAX thresholds and another
handling codes as your proposal.
>
> The test case is simple. It creates as many files until the disk full.
> The size for each file is 32KB. Then it writes as many as 100000
> records of 4KB size to random offsets of random files in sync mode.
> The testing was done on a 2GB partition of a SDHC card. Let's see the
> test result of f2fs without and with the patch.
It seems that we can obtain the performance gain just by setting the
MAX_VICTIM_SEARCH to 4096, for example.
So, how about just adding an ending criteria like below?
[snip]
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.c b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
> index 35f9b1a..4e045e6 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/gc.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
> @@ -138,10 +138,12 @@ static void select_policy(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, int
> gc_type,
> if (p->alloc_mode == SSR) {
> p->gc_mode = GC_GREEDY;
> p->dirty_segmap = dirty_i->dirty_segmap[type];
> + p->dirty_type = type;
p->max_search = dirty_i->nr_dirty[type];
> p->ofs_unit = 1;
> } else {
> p->gc_mode = select_gc_type(gc_type);
> p->dirty_segmap = dirty_i->dirty_segmap[DIRTY];
> + p->dirty_type = DIRTY;
p->max_search = dirty_i->nr_dirty[DIRTY];
> p->ofs_unit = sbi->segs_per_sec;
> }
if (p->max_search > MAX_VICTIM_SEARCH)
p->max_search = MAX_VICTIM_SEARCH;
#define MAX_VICTIM_SEARCH 4096 /* covers 8GB */
> p->offset = sbi->last_victim[p->gc_mode];
> @@ -243,6 +245,8 @@ static int get_victim_by_default(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
> struct victim_sel_policy p;
> unsigned int secno, max_cost;
> int nsearched = 0;
> + unsigned int max_search = MAX_VICTIM_SEARCH;
> + unsigned int nr_dirty;
>
> p.alloc_mode = alloc_mode;
> select_policy(sbi, gc_type, type, &p);
> @@ -258,6 +262,27 @@ static int get_victim_by_default(struct f2fs_sb_info
> *sbi,
> goto got_it;
> }
>
> + nr_dirty = dirty_i->nr_dirty[p.dirty_type];
> + if (p.gc_mode == GC_GREEDY && p.alloc_mode != SSR) {
> + if (TOTAL_SEGS(sbi) <= FULL_VICTIM_SEARCH_THRESH)
> + max_search = nr_dirty; /* search all the dirty segs */
> + else {
> + /*
> + * With more dirty segments, garbage blocks are likely
> + * more scattered, thus search harder for better
> + * victim.
> + */
> + max_search = div_u64 ((nr_dirty *
> + FULL_VICTIM_SEARCH_THRESH), TOTAL_SEGS(sbi));
> + if (max_search < MIN_VICTIM_SEARCH_GREEDY)
> + max_search = MIN_VICTIM_SEARCH_GREEDY;
> + }
> + }
> +
> + /* no more than the total dirty segments */
> + if (max_search > nr_dirty)
> + max_search = nr_dirty;
> +
> while (1) {
> unsigned long cost;
> unsigned int segno;
> @@ -290,7 +315,7 @@ static int get_victim_by_default(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
> if (cost == max_cost)
> continue;
>
> - if (nsearched++ >= MAX_VICTIM_SEARCH) {
> + if (nsearched++ >= max_search) {
if (nsearched++ >= p.max_search) {
> sbi->last_victim[p.gc_mode] = segno;
> break;
> }
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.h b/fs/f2fs/gc.h
> index 2c6a6bd..2f525aa 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/gc.h
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.h
> @@ -20,7 +20,9 @@
> #define LIMIT_FREE_BLOCK 40 /* percentage over invalid + free space */
>
> /* Search max. number of dirty segments to select a victim segment */
> -#define MAX_VICTIM_SEARCH 20
> +#define MAX_VICTIM_SEARCH 20
> +#define MIN_VICTIM_SEARCH_GREEDY 20
> +#define FULL_VICTIM_SEARCH_THRESH 4096
>
> struct f2fs_gc_kthread {
> struct task_struct *f2fs_gc_task;
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.h b/fs/f2fs/segment.h
> index 062424a..cd33f96 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/segment.h
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.h
> @@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ struct victim_sel_policy {
> int alloc_mode; /* LFS or SSR */
> int gc_mode; /* GC_CB or GC_GREEDY */
> unsigned long *dirty_segmap; /* dirty segment bitmap */
> + int dirty_type;
int max_search; /* maximum # of segments to search */
> unsigned int offset; /* last scanned bitmap offset */
> unsigned int ofs_unit; /* bitmap search unit */
> unsigned int min_cost; /* minimum cost */
--
Jaegeuk Kim
Samsung
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