Hi Jaegeuk, > -----Original Message----- > From: Jaegeuk Kim [mailto:jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 9:00 AM > To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > linux-f2fs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: Jaegeuk Kim > Subject: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH 4/4] f2fs: call f2fs_balance_fs only when node was changed > > If user tries to update or read data, we don't need to call f2fs_balance_fs > which triggers f2fs_gc, which increases unnecessary long latency. One missing case is get_data_block_dio, how about also covering it based on following patch? >From 7175efac7473e7a04285055c69edfb7432f8ca4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 17:11:43 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] f2fs: reduce covered region of sbi->cp_rwsem in f2fs_map_blocks Only cover sbi->cp_rwsem on one dnode page's allocation and modification instead of multiple's in f2fs_map_blocks, it can reduce the covered region of cp_rwsem, then we can avoid potential long time delay for concurrent checkpointer. Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/f2fs/data.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/f2fs/data.c b/fs/f2fs/data.c index 8f8f8b0..3c83b16 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/data.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/data.c @@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ int f2fs_map_blocks(struct inode *inode, struct f2fs_map_blocks *map, } if (create) - f2fs_lock_op(F2FS_I_SB(inode)); + f2fs_lock_op(sbi); /* When reading holes, we need its node page */ set_new_dnode(&dn, inode, NULL, NULL, 0); @@ -651,6 +651,11 @@ get_next: allocated = false; f2fs_put_dnode(&dn); + if (create) { + f2fs_unlock_op(sbi); + f2fs_lock_op(sbi); + } + set_new_dnode(&dn, inode, NULL, NULL, 0); err = get_dnode_of_data(&dn, pgofs, mode); if (err) { @@ -706,7 +711,7 @@ put_out: f2fs_put_dnode(&dn); unlock_out: if (create) - f2fs_unlock_op(F2FS_I_SB(inode)); + f2fs_unlock_op(sbi); out: trace_f2fs_map_blocks(inode, map, err); return err; -- 2.6.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html