From 36b35a0dbe904a06e94154f29db0d0e218420c98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chao Yu Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:13:28 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] f2fs: support data flush in background Previously, when finishing a checkpoint, we have persisted all fs meta info including meta inode, node inode, dentry page of directory inode, so, after a sudden power cut, f2fs can recover from last checkpoint with full directory structure. But during checkpoint, we didn't flush dirty pages of regular and symlink inode, so such dirty datas still in memory will be lost in that moment of power off. In order to reduce the chance of lost data, this patch enables f2fs_balance_fs_bg with the ability of data flushing. It will try to flush user data before starting a checkpoint. So user's data written after last checkpoint which may not be fsynced could be saved. When we mount with data_flush option, after every period of cp_interval (could be configured in sysfs: /sys/fs/f2fs/device/cp_interval) seconds user data could be flushed into device once f2fs_balance_fs_bg was called in kworker thread or gc thread. Signed-off-by: Chao Yu Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim --- fs/f2fs/segment.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.c b/fs/f2fs/segment.c index 5fa519f02860..c2474509e5de 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/segment.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.c @@ -291,8 +291,11 @@ void f2fs_balance_fs_bg(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi) if (!available_free_memory(sbi, NAT_ENTRIES) || excess_prefree_segs(sbi) || !available_free_memory(sbi, INO_ENTRIES) || - jiffies > sbi->cp_expires) + jiffies > sbi->cp_expires) { + if (test_opt(sbi, DATA_FLUSH)) + sync_dirty_inodes(sbi, FILE_INODE); f2fs_sync_fs(sbi->sb, true); + } } static int issue_flush_thread(void *data) -- 2.39.5