f2fs: change atomic and volatile write policies

This patch adds two new ioctls to release inmemory pages grabbed by atomic
writes.
 o f2fs_ioc_abort_volatile_write
  - If transaction was failed, all the grabbed pages and data should be written.
 o f2fs_ioc_release_volatile_write
  - This is to enhance the performance of PERSIST mode in sqlite.

In order to avoid huge memory consumption which causes OOM, this patch changes
volatile writes to use normal dirty pages, instead blocked flushing to the disk
as long as system does not suffer from memory pressure.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/data.c b/fs/f2fs/data.c
index 7ec697b37f19..32264e3d524f 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/data.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/data.c
@@ -814,6 +814,11 @@ static int f2fs_write_data_page(struct page *page,
 write:
 	if (unlikely(sbi->por_doing))
 		goto redirty_out;
+	if (f2fs_is_drop_cache(inode))
+		goto out;
+	if (f2fs_is_volatile_file(inode) && !wbc->for_reclaim &&
+			available_free_memory(sbi, BASE_CHECK))
+		goto redirty_out;
 
 	/* Dentry blocks are controlled by checkpoint */
 	if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) {
@@ -1109,7 +1114,7 @@ static void f2fs_invalidate_data_page(struct page *page, unsigned int offset,
 	if (offset % PAGE_CACHE_SIZE || length != PAGE_CACHE_SIZE)
 		return;
 
-	if (f2fs_is_atomic_file(inode) || f2fs_is_volatile_file(inode))
+	if (f2fs_is_atomic_file(inode))
 		invalidate_inmem_page(inode, page);
 
 	if (PageDirty(page))
@@ -1132,7 +1137,7 @@ static int f2fs_set_data_page_dirty(struct page *page)
 
 	SetPageUptodate(page);
 
-	if (f2fs_is_atomic_file(inode) || f2fs_is_volatile_file(inode)) {
+	if (f2fs_is_atomic_file(inode)) {
 		register_inmem_page(inode, page);
 		return 1;
 	}