summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorDaeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>2022-04-28 11:18:09 -0700
committerJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>2022-05-12 10:14:03 -0700
commit3db1de0e582c358dd013f3703cd55b5fe4076436 (patch)
tree230a5fdc8c4699d4b9a5bf7c252d8a2444e5706c /fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
parent6213f5d4d23c50d393a31dc8e351e63a1fd10dbe (diff)
downloadlinux-3db1de0e582c358dd013f3703cd55b5fe4076436.tar.gz
linux-3db1de0e582c358dd013f3703cd55b5fe4076436.tar.bz2
linux-3db1de0e582c358dd013f3703cd55b5fe4076436.zip
f2fs: change the current atomic write way
Current atomic write has three major issues like below. - keeps the updates in non-reclaimable memory space and they are even hard to be migrated, which is not good for contiguous memory allocation. - disk spaces used for atomic files cannot be garbage collected, so this makes it difficult for the filesystem to be defragmented. - If atomic write operations hit the threshold of either memory usage or garbage collection failure count, All the atomic write operations will fail immediately. To resolve the issues, I will keep a COW inode internally for all the updates to be flushed from memory, when we need to flush them out in a situation like high memory pressure. These COW inodes will be tagged as orphan inodes to be reclaimed in case of sudden power-cut or system failure during atomic writes. Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c')
0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions