tree 8d8f9628b0e62ea58b5c0161a4ed803f14d3b363
parent 8be7c506383471fff5ac5a285fa384ceb213577e
author Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com> 1455876526 +0800
committer chrmhoffmann <chrmhoffmann@gmail.com> 1510606819 +0100

f2fs: split journal cache from curseg cache

In curseg cache, f2fs caches two different parts:
 - datas of current summay block, i.e. summary entries, footer info.
 - journal info, i.e. sparse nat/sit entries or io stat info.

With this approach, 1) it may cause higher lock contention when we access
or update both of the parts of cache since we use the same mutex lock
curseg_mutex to protect the cache. 2) current summary block with last
journal info will be writebacked into device as a normal summary block
when flushing, however, we treat journal info as valid one only in current
summary, so most normal summary blocks contain junk journal data, it wastes
remaining space of summary block.

So, in order to fix above issues, we split curseg cache into two parts:
a) current summary block, protected by original mutex lock curseg_mutex
b) journal cache, protected by newly introduced r/w semaphore journal_rwsem

When loading curseg cache during ->mount, we store summary info and
journal info into different caches; When doing checkpoint, we combine
datas of two cache into current summary block for persisting.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>