Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: do not issue small discard commands during checkpoint

[Jaegeuk Kim]

Hi Daejun,

On 06/14, Daejun Park wrote:
> Hi Jaegeuk,
> 
> > If there're huge # of small discards, this will increase checkpoint latency
> > insanely. Let's issue small discards only by trim.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  fs/f2fs/segment.c | 5 ++---
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.c b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
> > index 0c0c033c4bdd..ef46bb085385 100644
> > --- a/fs/f2fs/segment.c
> > +++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
> > @@ -2178,7 +2178,7 @@ void f2fs_clear_prefree_segments(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
> >          }
> >          mutex_unlock(&dirty_i->seglist_lock);
> >  
> > -        if (!f2fs_block_unit_discard(sbi))
> > +        if (!f2fs_block_unit_discard(sbi) || !force)
> 
> If we don't handle the discard entries here, dcc->entry_list will still have them,
> so stale discard entries may be handled by trim, causing incorrect discards to be issued.
> Therefore, I think this patch should also prevent the creation of discard entries
> in add_discard_addrs(), unless it is a checkpoint caused by trim.
> This would further reduce the latency caused by the creation of a discard entry.

I found this causes some objects were not reclaimed when removing the module.
Hence I'm testing v2.

> 
> Thanks,
> Daejun
>