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Commit 493720a4 authored by Chao Yu's avatar Chao Yu Committed by Jaegeuk Kim
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f2fs: fix to avoid REQ_TIME and CP_TIME collision



Lei Li reported a issue: if foreground operations are frequent, background
checkpoint may be always skipped due to below check, result in losing more
data after sudden power-cut.

f2fs_balance_fs_bg()
...
	if (!is_idle(sbi, REQ_TIME) &&
		(!excess_dirty_nats(sbi) && !excess_dirty_nodes(sbi)))
		return;

E.g:
cp_interval = 5 second
idle_interval = 2 second
foreground operation interval = 1 second (append 1 byte per second into file)

In such case, no matter when it calls f2fs_balance_fs_bg(), is_idle(, REQ_TIME)
returns false, result in skipping background checkpoint.

This patch changes as below to make trigger condition being more reasonable:
- trigger sync_fs() if dirty_{nats,nodes} and prefree segs exceeds threshold;
- skip triggering sync_fs() if there is any background inflight IO or there is
foreground operation recently and meanwhile cp_rwsem is being held by someone;

Reported-by: default avatarLei Li <noctis.akm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
parent 8769918b
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