f2fs: Add bggc_io_aware to adjust the priority of BG_GC when issuing IO

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_io_aware 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 AWARE_ALL_IO, 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 <liaoyuanhong@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Liao Yuanhong
2025-08-08 17:48:01 +08:00
committed by Jaegeuk Kim
parent 80b6d1d253
commit 00798cd24f
4 changed files with 35 additions and 7 deletions

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@@ -898,3 +898,16 @@ Description:
- "compat": Hash-based lookup with a linear search fallback enabled
- "auto:perf": lookup_mode is auto and fallback is disabled on-disk
- "auto:compat": lookup_mode is auto and fallback is enabled on-disk
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/bggc_io_aware
Date: August 2025
Contact: "Liao Yuanhong" <liaoyuanhong@vivo.com>
Description: Used to adjust the BG_GC priority when pending IO, with a default value
of 0. Specifically, for ZUFS, the default value is 1.
================== ======================================================
value description
bggc_io_aware = 0 skip background GC if there is any kind of pending IO
bggc_io_aware = 1 skip background GC if there is pending read IO
bggc_io_aware = 2 don't aware IO for background GC
================== ======================================================

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@@ -155,6 +155,12 @@ enum blkzone_allocation_policy {
BLKZONE_ALLOC_PRIOR_CONV, /* Prioritize writing to conventional zones */
};
enum bggc_io_aware_policy {
AWARE_ALL_IO, /* skip background GC if there is any kind of pending IO */
AWARE_READ_IO, /* skip background GC if there is pending read IO */
AWARE_NONE, /* don't aware IO for background GC */
};
/*
* An implementation of an rwsem that is explicitly unfair to readers. This
* prevents priority inversion when a low-priority reader acquires the read lock
@@ -1841,6 +1847,7 @@ struct f2fs_sb_info {
spinlock_t dev_lock; /* protect dirty_device */
bool aligned_blksize; /* all devices has the same logical blksize */
unsigned int first_seq_zone_segno; /* first segno in sequential zone */
unsigned int bggc_io_aware; /* For adjust the BG_GC priority when pending IO */
/* For write statistics */
u64 sectors_written_start;
@@ -3033,13 +3040,10 @@ static inline bool is_idle(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, int type)
if (sbi->gc_mode == GC_URGENT_HIGH)
return true;
if (zoned_gc) {
if (is_inflight_read_io(sbi))
return false;
} else {
if (is_inflight_io(sbi, type))
return false;
}
if (sbi->bggc_io_aware == AWARE_READ_IO && is_inflight_read_io(sbi))
return false;
if (sbi->bggc_io_aware == AWARE_ALL_IO && is_inflight_io(sbi, type))
return false;
if (sbi->gc_mode == GC_URGENT_MID)
return true;

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@@ -4683,9 +4683,11 @@ static int f2fs_scan_devices(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
logical_blksize = bdev_logical_block_size(sbi->sb->s_bdev);
sbi->aligned_blksize = true;
sbi->bggc_io_aware = AWARE_ALL_IO;
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED
sbi->max_open_zones = UINT_MAX;
sbi->blkzone_alloc_policy = BLKZONE_ALLOC_PRIOR_SEQ;
sbi->bggc_io_aware = AWARE_READ_IO;
#endif
for (i = 0; i < max_devices; i++) {

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@@ -882,6 +882,13 @@ static ssize_t __sbi_store(struct f2fs_attr *a,
return count;
}
if (!strcmp(a->attr.name, "bggc_io_aware")) {
if (t < AWARE_ALL_IO || t > AWARE_NONE)
return -EINVAL;
sbi->bggc_io_aware = t;
return count;
}
*ui = (unsigned int)t;
return count;
@@ -1191,6 +1198,7 @@ F2FS_SBI_GENERAL_RW_ATTR(blkzone_alloc_policy);
#endif
F2FS_SBI_GENERAL_RW_ATTR(carve_out);
F2FS_SBI_GENERAL_RW_ATTR(reserved_pin_section);
F2FS_SBI_GENERAL_RW_ATTR(bggc_io_aware);
/* STAT_INFO ATTR */
#ifdef CONFIG_F2FS_STAT_FS
@@ -1320,6 +1328,7 @@ static struct attribute *f2fs_attrs[] = {
ATTR_LIST(discard_idle_interval),
ATTR_LIST(gc_idle_interval),
ATTR_LIST(umount_discard_timeout),
ATTR_LIST(bggc_io_aware),
#ifdef CONFIG_F2FS_IOSTAT
ATTR_LIST(iostat_enable),
ATTR_LIST(iostat_period_ms),