f2fs: give an option to enable in-place-updates during fsync to users
If user wrote F2FS_IPU_FSYNC:4 in /sys/fs/f2fs/ipu_policy, f2fs_sync_file
only starts to try in-place-updates.
And, if the number of dirty pages is over /sys/fs/f2fs/min_fsync_blocks, it
keeps out-of-order manner. Otherwise, it triggers in-place-updates.
This may be used by storage showing very high random write performance.
For example, it can be used when,
Seq. writes (Data) + wait + Seq. writes (Node)
is pretty much slower than,
Rand. writes (Data)
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/file.c b/fs/f2fs/file.c
index 77426c7..af06e22 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/file.c
@@ -154,12 +154,11 @@
trace_f2fs_sync_file_enter(inode);
/* if fdatasync is triggered, let's do in-place-update */
- if (datasync)
+ if (get_dirty_pages(inode) <= SM_I(sbi)->min_fsync_blocks)
set_inode_flag(fi, FI_NEED_IPU);
-
ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping, start, end);
- if (datasync)
- clear_inode_flag(fi, FI_NEED_IPU);
+ clear_inode_flag(fi, FI_NEED_IPU);
+
if (ret) {
trace_f2fs_sync_file_exit(inode, need_cp, datasync, ret);
return ret;