Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] f2fs: avoid unneeded barrier in do_checkpoint() | From | Chao Yu <> | Date | Wed, 19 Feb 2020 11:18:15 +0800 |
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On 2020/2/19 10:51, Jaegeuk Kim wrote: > On 02/18, Chao Yu wrote: >> We don't need to wait all dirty page submitting IO twice, >> remove unneeded wait step. > > What happens if checkpoint and other meta writs are reordered?
checkpoint can be done as following:
1. All meta except last cp-park of checkpoint area. 2. last cp-park of checkpoint area
So we only need to keep barrier in between step 1 and 2, we don't need to care about the write order of meta in step 1, right?
Thanks,
> >> >> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> >> --- >> fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c | 2 -- >> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c >> index 751815cb4c2b..9c88fb3d255a 100644 >> --- a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c >> +++ b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c >> @@ -1384,8 +1384,6 @@ static int do_checkpoint(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, struct cp_control *cpc) >> >> /* Flush all the NAT/SIT pages */ >> f2fs_sync_meta_pages(sbi, META, LONG_MAX, FS_CP_META_IO); >> - /* Wait for all dirty meta pages to be submitted for IO */ >> - f2fs_wait_on_all_pages(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_META); >> >> /* >> * modify checkpoint >> -- >> 2.18.0.rc1 > . >
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