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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/xfs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/xfs.rst index b67772cf36d6..5becb441c3cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/xfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/xfs.rst @@ -124,6 +124,14 @@ When mounting an XFS filesystem, the following options are accepted. controls the size of each buffer and so is also relevant to this case. + lifetime (default) or nolifetime + Enable data placement based on write life time hints provided + by the user. This turns on co-allocation of data of similar + life times when statistically favorable to reduce garbage + collection cost. + + These options are only available for zoned rt file systems. + logbsize=value Set the size of each in-memory log buffer. The size may be specified in bytes, or in kilobytes with a "k" suffix. @@ -143,6 +151,14 @@ When mounting an XFS filesystem, the following options are accepted. optional, and the log section can be separate from the data section or contained within it. + max_open_zones=value + Specify the max number of zones to keep open for writing on a + zoned rt device. Many open zones aids file data separation + but may impact performance on HDDs. + + If ``max_open_zones`` is not specified, the value is determined + by the capabilities and the size of the zoned rt device. + noalign Data allocations will not be aligned at stripe unit boundaries. This is only relevant to filesystems created @@ -542,3 +558,24 @@ The interesting knobs for XFS workqueues are as follows: nice Relative priority of scheduling the threads. These are the same nice levels that can be applied to userspace processes. ============ =========== + +Zoned Filesystems +================= + +For zoned file systems, the following attributes are exposed in: + + /sys/fs/xfs/<dev>/zoned/ + + max_open_zones (Min: 1 Default: Varies Max: UINTMAX) + This read-only attribute exposes the maximum number of open zones + available for data placement. The value is determined at mount time and + is limited by the capabilities of the backing zoned device, file system + size and the max_open_zones mount option. + + zonegc_low_space (Min: 0 Default: 0 Max: 100) + Define a percentage for how much of the unused space that GC should keep + available for writing. A high value will reclaim more of the space + occupied by unused blocks, creating a larger buffer against write + bursts at the cost of increased write amplification. Regardless + of this value, garbage collection will always aim to free a minimum + amount of blocks to keep max_open_zones open for data placement purposes. |