f2fs: support IO alignment for DATA and NODE writes

This patch implements IO alignment by filling dummy blocks in DATA and NODE
write bios. If we can guarantee, for example, 32KB or 64KB for such the IOs,
we can eliminate underlying dummy page problem which FTL conducts in order to
close MLC or TLC partial written pages.

Note that,
 - it requires "-o mode=lfs".
 - IO size should be power of 2, not exceed BIO_MAX_PAGES, 256.
 - read IO is still 4KB.
 - do checkpoint at fsync, if dummy NODE page was written.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c
index 46fd30d..00fc36e 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c
@@ -1763,6 +1763,8 @@ static int f2fs_scan_devices(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 				FDEV(i).total_segments,
 				FDEV(i).start_blk, FDEV(i).end_blk);
 	}
+	f2fs_msg(sbi->sb, KERN_INFO,
+			"IO Block Size: %8d KB", F2FS_IO_SIZE_KB(sbi));
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -1880,12 +1882,19 @@ try_onemore:
 	if (err)
 		goto free_options;
 
+	if (F2FS_IO_SIZE(sbi) > 1) {
+		sbi->write_io_dummy =
+			mempool_create_page_pool(F2FS_IO_SIZE(sbi) - 1, 0);
+		if (!sbi->write_io_dummy)
+			goto free_options;
+	}
+
 	/* get an inode for meta space */
 	sbi->meta_inode = f2fs_iget(sb, F2FS_META_INO(sbi));
 	if (IS_ERR(sbi->meta_inode)) {
 		f2fs_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "Failed to read F2FS meta data inode");
 		err = PTR_ERR(sbi->meta_inode);
-		goto free_options;
+		goto free_io_dummy;
 	}
 
 	err = get_valid_checkpoint(sbi);
@@ -2103,6 +2112,8 @@ free_devices:
 free_meta_inode:
 	make_bad_inode(sbi->meta_inode);
 	iput(sbi->meta_inode);
+free_io_dummy:
+	mempool_destroy(sbi->write_io_dummy);
 free_options:
 	destroy_percpu_info(sbi);
 	kfree(options);