Re: [PATCH] f2fs: Reduce zoned block device memory usage

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On 2019/03/06 1:55, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> On 03/05, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>> Johannes,
>>
>> On 2019/03/04 18:46, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
>>> Hi Damien,
>>>
>>> On 04/03/2019 08:04, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>>>> @@ -2765,9 +2765,11 @@ static int init_blkz_info(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, int devi)
>>>>  	if (nr_sectors & (bdev_zone_sectors(bdev) - 1))
>>>>  		FDEV(devi).nr_blkz++;
>>>>  
>>>> -	FDEV(devi).blkz_type = f2fs_kmalloc(sbi, FDEV(devi).nr_blkz,
>>>> -								GFP_KERNEL);
>>>> -	if (!FDEV(devi).blkz_type)
>>>> +	FDEV(devi).blkz_seq = f2fs_kzalloc(sbi,
>>>> +					BITS_TO_LONGS(FDEV(devi).nr_blkz)
>>>> +					* sizeof(unsigned long),
>>>> +					GFP_KERNEL);
>>>> +	if (!FDEV(devi).blkz_seq)
>>>>  		return -ENOMEM;
>>>
>>> Not so sure about F2FS internals, but there is a bitmap_zalloc() in the
>>> normal kernel library.
>>
>> Yes indeed... f2fs_kzalloc uses f2fs_kmalloc(__GFP_ZERO) and f2fs_kmalloc is
>> basically kmalloc() or kvmalloc() but with error injection for tests. So I used
>> that instead of bitmap_zalloc() to preserve the error injection test.
>>
>> Jaegeuk,
>>
>> Which do you prefer ? The patch as it is or switching to bitmap_zalloc() ?
>> Whichever is fine with me so I can send a v2 if you prefer bitmap_zalloc().
> 
> Hi Damien,
> 
> I think f2fs_kmalloc would be fine for fault injection tests. It seems it'd
> better to write a clean-up patch which replaces all the bitmap allocations
> in f2fs with single f2fs_bitmap_zalloc() at once.

Sounds good to me. So will you take the patch as is ? Any comment on it ?
This change was tested on a 15TB SMR disks.

> 
> I'll take a look at this.
> Thanks,
> 
>>
>> Best regards.
>>
>> -- 
>> Damien Le Moal
>> Western Digital Research
> 


-- 
Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research




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