Merge tag 'for-f2fs-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs

Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
 "This patch-set includes the following major enhancement patches.
   - introduce large directory support
   - introduce f2fs_issue_flush to merge redundant flush commands
   - merge write IOs as much as possible aligned to the segment
   - add sysfs entries to tune the f2fs configuration
   - use radix_tree for the free_nid_list to reduce in-memory operations
   - remove costly bit operations in f2fs_find_entry
   - enhance the readahead flow for CP/NAT/SIT/SSA blocks

  The other bug fixes are as follows:
   - recover xattr node blocks correctly after sudden-power-cut
   - fix to calculate the maximum number of node ids
   - enhance to handle many error cases

  And, there are a bunch of cleanups"

* tag 'for-f2fs-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (62 commits)
  f2fs: fix wrong statistics of inline data
  f2fs: check the acl's validity before setting
  f2fs: introduce f2fs_issue_flush to avoid redundant flush issue
  f2fs: fix to cover io->bio with io_rwsem
  f2fs: fix error path when fail to read inline data
  f2fs: use list_for_each_entry{_safe} for simplyfying code
  f2fs: avoid free slab cache under spinlock
  f2fs: avoid unneeded lookup when xattr name length is too long
  f2fs: avoid unnecessary bio submit when wait page writeback
  f2fs: return -EIO when node id is not matched
  f2fs: avoid RECLAIM_FS-ON-W warning
  f2fs: skip unnecessary node writes during fsync
  f2fs: introduce fi->i_sem to protect fi's info
  f2fs: change reclaim rate in percentage
  f2fs: add missing documentation for dir_level
  f2fs: remove unnecessary threshold
  f2fs: throttle the memory footprint with a sysfs entry
  f2fs: avoid to drop nat entries due to the negative nr_shrink
  f2fs: call f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback instead of native function
  f2fs: introduce nr_pages_to_write for segment alignment
  ...

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
index b8d2849..25311e11 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
@@ -122,6 +122,10 @@ disable_ext_identify   Disable the extension list configured by mkfs, so f2fs
 inline_xattr           Enable the inline xattrs feature.
 inline_data            Enable the inline data feature: New created small(<~3.4k)
                        files can be written into inode block.
+flush_merge	       Merge concurrent cache_flush commands as much as possible
+                       to eliminate redundant command issues. If the underlying
+		       device handles the cache_flush command relatively slowly,
+		       recommend to enable this option.
 
 ================================================================================
 DEBUGFS ENTRIES
@@ -169,9 +173,11 @@ Files in /sys/fs/f2fs/<devname>
 
  reclaim_segments             This parameter controls the number of prefree
                               segments to be reclaimed. If the number of prefree
-			      segments is larger than this number, f2fs tries to
-			      conduct checkpoint to reclaim the prefree segments
-			      to free segments. By default, 100 segments, 200MB.
+			      segments is larger than the number of segments
+			      in the proportion to the percentage over total
+			      volume size, f2fs tries to conduct checkpoint to
+			      reclaim the prefree segments to free segments.
+			      By default, 5% over total # of segments.
 
  max_small_discards	      This parameter controls the number of discard
 			      commands that consist small blocks less than 2MB.
@@ -195,6 +201,17 @@ Files in /sys/fs/f2fs/<devname>
 			      cleaning operations. The default value is 4096
 			      which covers 8GB block address range.
 
+ dir_level                    This parameter controls the directory level to
+			      support large directory. If a directory has a
+			      number of files, it can reduce the file lookup
+			      latency by increasing this dir_level value.
+			      Otherwise, it needs to decrease this value to
+			      reduce the space overhead. The default value is 0.
+
+ ram_thresh                   This parameter controls the memory footprint used
+			      by free nids and cached nat entries. By default,
+			      10 is set, which indicates 10 MB / 1 GB RAM.
+
 ================================================================================
 USAGE
 ================================================================================
@@ -444,9 +461,11 @@ The number of blocks and buckets are determined by,
   # of blocks in level #n = |
                             `- 4, Otherwise
 
-                             ,- 2^n, if n < MAX_DIR_HASH_DEPTH / 2,
+                             ,- 2^ (n + dir_level),
+			     |            if n < MAX_DIR_HASH_DEPTH / 2,
   # of buckets in level #n = |
-                             `- 2^((MAX_DIR_HASH_DEPTH / 2) - 1), Otherwise
+                             `- 2^((MAX_DIR_HASH_DEPTH / 2 + dir_level) - 1),
+			                  Otherwise
 
 When F2FS finds a file name in a directory, at first a hash value of the file
 name is calculated. Then, F2FS scans the hash table in level #0 to find the