Hi Jaegeuk,

On 2016/5/30 10:37, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> Hi Chao,
> 
> On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 01:19:11PM +0800, Chao Yu wrote:
>> From: Chao Yu <[email protected]>
>>
>> If we fail to move data page during foreground GC, we should give another
>> chance to writeback that page which was set dirty previously by writer.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  fs/f2fs/gc.c | 5 ++++-
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.c b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
>> index 38d56f6..ee213a8 100644
>> --- a/fs/f2fs/gc.c
>> +++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
>> @@ -653,12 +653,15 @@ static void move_data_page(struct inode *inode, 
>> block_t bidx, int gc_type)
>>                      .page = page,
>>                      .encrypted_page = NULL,
>>              };
>> +            bool is_dirty = PageDirty(page);
>> +
>>              set_page_dirty(page);
>>              f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback(page, DATA, true);
>>              if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page))
>>                      inode_dec_dirty_pages(inode);
>>              set_cold_data(page);
>> -            do_write_data_page(&fio);
>> +            if (do_write_data_page(&fio) && is_dirty)
>> +                    set_page_dirty(page);
> 
> If this page is truncated with -ENOENT, we don't need to set it dirty again.

Agree

> I expect that, if we get an error here, do_garbage_collect() would retry FG_GC

IIRC, you have reworked the FG_GC flows changed from an infinite loop to trying
do the movement just one time. Here, I think if there are just few of blocks are
failed to be moved, we can give one more time for retrying. How do you think?

> again.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>>              clear_cold_data(page);
>>      }
>>  out:
>> -- 
>> 2.7.2
> .
> 


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