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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs | 31 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst | 14 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs index cbeac1bebe2f..4849b8e84e42 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs @@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ Date April 2019 Contact: "Daniel Rosenberg" <drosen@google.com> Description: If checkpoint=disable, it displays the number of blocks that are unusable. - If checkpoint=enable it displays the enumber of blocks that + If checkpoint=enable it displays the number of blocks that would be unusable if checkpoint=disable were to be set. What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/encoding @@ -409,3 +409,32 @@ Description: Give a way to change checkpoint merge daemon's io priority. I/O priority "3". We can select the class between "rt" and "be", and set the I/O priority within valid range of it. "," delimiter is necessary in between I/O class and priority number. + +What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/ovp_segments +Date: March 2021 +Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org> +Description: Shows the number of overprovision segments. + +What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/compr_written_block +Date: March 2021 +Contact: "Daeho Jeong" <daehojeong@google.com> +Description: Show the block count written after compression since mount. Note + that when the compressed blocks are deleted, this count doesn't + decrease. If you write "0" here, you can initialize + compr_written_block and compr_saved_block to "0". + +What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/compr_saved_block +Date: March 2021 +Contact: "Daeho Jeong" <daehojeong@google.com> +Description: Show the saved block count with compression since mount. Note + that when the compressed blocks are deleted, this count doesn't + decrease. If you write "0" here, you can initialize + compr_written_block and compr_saved_block to "0". + +What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/compr_new_inode +Date: March 2021 +Contact: "Daeho Jeong" <daehojeong@google.com> +Description: Show the count of inode newly enabled for compression since mount. + Note that when the compression is disabled for the files, this count + doesn't decrease. If you write "0" here, you can initialize + compr_new_inode to "0". diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst index 35ed01a5fbc9..992bf91eeec8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst @@ -110,6 +110,12 @@ background_gc=%s Turn on/off cleaning operations, namely garbage on synchronous garbage collection running in background. Default value for this option is on. So garbage collection is on by default. +gc_merge When background_gc is on, this option can be enabled to + let background GC thread to handle foreground GC requests, + it can eliminate the sluggish issue caused by slow foreground + GC operation when GC is triggered from a process with limited + I/O and CPU resources. +nogc_merge Disable GC merge feature. disable_roll_forward Disable the roll-forward recovery routine norecovery Disable the roll-forward recovery routine, mounted read- only (i.e., -o ro,disable_roll_forward) @@ -813,6 +819,14 @@ Compression implementation * chattr +c file * chattr +c dir; touch dir/file * mount w/ -o compress_extension=ext; touch file.ext + * mount w/ -o compress_extension=*; touch any_file + +- At this point, compression feature doesn't expose compressed space to user + directly in order to guarantee potential data updates later to the space. + Instead, the main goal is to reduce data writes to flash disk as much as + possible, resulting in extending disk life time as well as relaxing IO + congestion. Alternatively, we've added ioctl interface to reclaim compressed + space and show it to user after putting the immutable bit. Compress metadata layout:: |