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f2fs: give an option to enable in-place-updates during fsync to users

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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>
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Jaegeuk Kim 2014-09-10 16:53:02 -07:00
commit c1ce1b02bb
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@ -1928,8 +1928,9 @@ int build_segment_manager(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
sm_info->ssa_blkaddr = le32_to_cpu(raw_super->ssa_blkaddr);
sm_info->rec_prefree_segments = sm_info->main_segments *
DEF_RECLAIM_PREFREE_SEGMENTS / 100;
sm_info->ipu_policy = F2FS_IPU_DISABLE;
sm_info->ipu_policy = F2FS_IPU_FSYNC;
sm_info->min_ipu_util = DEF_MIN_IPU_UTIL;
sm_info->min_fsync_blocks = DEF_MIN_FSYNC_BLOCKS;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sm_info->discard_list);
sm_info->nr_discards = 0;