Re: [PATCH] f2fs: fix to redirty page if fail to gc data page

From: Chao Yu
Date: Tue May 31 2016 - 02:11:17 EST


Hi Jaegeuk,

On 2016/5/30 10:37, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> Hi Chao,
>
> On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 01:19:11PM +0800, Chao Yu wrote:
>> From: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> If we fail to move data page during foreground GC, we should give another
>> chance to writeback that page which was set dirty previously by writer.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> fs/f2fs/gc.c | 5 ++++-
>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.c b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
>> index 38d56f6..ee213a8 100644
>> --- a/fs/f2fs/gc.c
>> +++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
>> @@ -653,12 +653,15 @@ static void move_data_page(struct inode *inode, block_t bidx, int gc_type)
>> .page = page,
>> .encrypted_page = NULL,
>> };
>> + bool is_dirty = PageDirty(page);
>> +
>> set_page_dirty(page);
>> f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback(page, DATA, true);
>> if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page))
>> inode_dec_dirty_pages(inode);
>> set_cold_data(page);
>> - do_write_data_page(&fio);
>> + if (do_write_data_page(&fio) && is_dirty)
>> + set_page_dirty(page);
>
> If this page is truncated with -ENOENT, we don't need to set it dirty again.

Agree

> I expect that, if we get an error here, do_garbage_collect() would retry FG_GC

IIRC, you have reworked the FG_GC flows changed from an infinite loop to trying
do the movement just one time. Here, I think if there are just few of blocks are
failed to be moved, we can give one more time for retrying. How do you think?

> again.
>
> Thanks,
>
>> clear_cold_data(page);
>> }
>> out:
>> --
>> 2.7.2
> .
>