Currently, we have encountered some issues while testing ZUFS. In situations near the storage limit (e.g., 50GB remaining), and after simulating fragmentation by repeatedly writing and deleting data, we found that application installation and startup tests conducted after idling for a few minutes take significantly longer several times that of traditional UFS. Tracing the operations revealed that the majority of I/Os were issued by background GC, which blocks normal I/O operations.
Under normal circumstances, ZUFS indeed requires more background GC and employs a more aggressive GC strategy. However, I aim to find a way to minimize the impact on regular I/O operations under these near-limit conditions. To address this, I have introduced a bggc_block_io feature, which controls the prioritization of background GC in the presence of I/Os. This switch can be adjusted at the framework level to implement different strategies. If set to ALL_IO_PRIOR, all background GC operations will be skipped during active I/O issuance. The default option remains consistent with the current strategy, ensuring no change in behavior. Signed-off-by: Liao Yuanhong <liaoyuanh...@vivo.com> --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs | 13 +++++++++++++ fs/f2fs/f2fs.h | 12 +++++++++++- fs/f2fs/super.c | 1 + fs/f2fs/sysfs.c | 9 +++++++++ 4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs index bc0e7fefc39d..12fda11d4da5 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs @@ -883,3 +883,16 @@ Date: June 2025 Contact: "Daeho Jeong" <daehoje...@google.com> Description: Control GC algorithm for boost GC. 0: cost benefit, 1: greedy Default: 1 + +What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/bggc_block_io +Date: August 2025 +Contact: "Liao Yuanhong" <liaoyuanh...@vivo.com> +Description: Used to adjust the BG_GC priority when issuing IO, with a default value + of 1. + + ================== ============================================= + value description + bggc_block_io = 0 Prioritize background GC + bggc_block_io = 1 Stop background GC only when issuing read I/O + bggc_block_io = 2 Stop background GC when issuing I/O + ================== ============================================= diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h index 46be7560548c..22ea648436ec 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h +++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h @@ -155,6 +155,12 @@ enum blkzone_allocation_policy { BLKZONE_ALLOC_PRIOR_CONV, /* Prioritize writing to conventional zones */ }; +enum bggc_block_io_policy { + BGGC_PRIOR, + READ_IO_PRIOR, + ALL_IO_PRIOR, +}; + /* * An implementation of an rwsem that is explicitly unfair to readers. This * prevents priority inversion when a low-priority reader acquires the read lock @@ -1608,6 +1614,8 @@ struct f2fs_sb_info { unsigned int max_open_zones; /* max open zone resources of the zoned device */ /* For adjust the priority writing position of data in zone UFS */ unsigned int blkzone_alloc_policy; + /* Used to adjust the BG_GC priority when issuing IO */ + unsigned int bggc_block_io; #endif /* for node-related operations */ @@ -2999,7 +3007,9 @@ static inline bool is_idle(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, int type) return true; if (zoned_gc) { - if (is_inflight_read_io(sbi)) + if (sbi->bggc_block_io == READ_IO_PRIOR && is_inflight_read_io(sbi)) + return false; + if (sbi->bggc_block_io == ALL_IO_PRIOR && is_inflight_io(sbi, type)) return false; } else { if (is_inflight_io(sbi, type)) diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c index e16c4e2830c2..99f46b8855ec 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/super.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c @@ -4632,6 +4632,7 @@ static int f2fs_scan_devices(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi) #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED sbi->max_open_zones = UINT_MAX; sbi->blkzone_alloc_policy = BLKZONE_ALLOC_PRIOR_SEQ; + sbi->bggc_block_io = READ_IO_PRIOR; #endif for (i = 0; i < max_devices; i++) { diff --git a/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c b/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c index f736052dea50..efea15209788 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c @@ -674,6 +674,13 @@ static ssize_t __sbi_store(struct f2fs_attr *a, sbi->blkzone_alloc_policy = t; return count; } + + if (!strcmp(a->attr.name, "bggc_block_io")) { + if (t < BGGC_PRIOR || t > ALL_IO_PRIOR) + return -EINVAL; + sbi->bggc_block_io = t; + return count; + } #endif #ifdef CONFIG_F2FS_FS_COMPRESSION @@ -1172,6 +1179,7 @@ F2FS_SBI_GENERAL_RW_ATTR(max_read_extent_count); #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED F2FS_SBI_GENERAL_RO_ATTR(unusable_blocks_per_sec); F2FS_SBI_GENERAL_RW_ATTR(blkzone_alloc_policy); +F2FS_SBI_GENERAL_RW_ATTR(bggc_block_io); #endif F2FS_SBI_GENERAL_RW_ATTR(carve_out); F2FS_SBI_GENERAL_RW_ATTR(reserved_pin_section); @@ -1342,6 +1350,7 @@ static struct attribute *f2fs_attrs[] = { #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED ATTR_LIST(unusable_blocks_per_sec), ATTR_LIST(blkzone_alloc_policy), + ATTR_LIST(bggc_block_io), #endif #ifdef CONFIG_F2FS_FS_COMPRESSION ATTR_LIST(compr_written_block), -- 2.34.1 _______________________________________________ Linux-f2fs-devel mailing list Linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-f2fs-devel