This patch introduces ram_thresh, a sysfs entry, which controls the memory
footprint used by the free nid list and the nat cache.
Previously, the free nid list was controlled by MAX_FREE_NIDS, while the nat
cache was managed by NM_WOUT_THRESHOLD.
However, this approach cannot be applied dynamically according to the system.
So, this patch adds ram_thresh that users can specify the threshold, which is
in order of 1 / 1024.
For example, if the total ram size is 4GB and the value is set to 10 by default,
f2fs tries to control the number of free nids and nat caches not to consume over
10 * (4GB / 1024) = 10MB.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch adds missing some description of sysfs entries in
- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs
- Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt.
And it adds a maintained document entry of F2FS in MAINTAINERS.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Add sysfs entry gc_idle to control the gc policy. Where
gc_idle = 1 corresponds to selecting a cost benefit approach,
while gc_idle = 2 corresponds to selecting a greedy approach
to garbage collection. The selection is mutually exclusive one
approach will work at any point. If gc_idle = 0, then this
option is disabled.
Cc: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Kumar <pankaj.km@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: change the select_gc_type() flow slightly]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Add sysfs entries to control the timing parameters for
f2fs gc thread.
Various Sysfs options introduced are:
gc_min_sleep_time: Min Sleep time for GC in ms
gc_max_sleep_time: Max Sleep time for GC in ms
gc_no_gc_sleep_time: Default Sleep time for GC in ms
Cc: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Kumar <pankaj.km@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: fix an umount bug and some minor changes]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
