Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH v2] f2fs: issue multi-device flushes in parallel
Chao Yu via Linux-f2fs-devel <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Aug 2026 11:13:21 +0800
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On 8/6/26 11:08, Yonggil Song wrote: > > On a multi-device setup, submit_flush_wait() walked the dirty devices > in order and aborted the whole loop on the first device whose flush > failed, leaving the remaining dirty devices un-flushed. Each device > still needs its own data made durable, so a failure on one device must > not skip the others. It also waited for one device's flush to complete > before issuing the next, even though the devices have independent > flush queues and could be flushed concurrently. > > Flush every dirty device best-effort and in parallel instead: build > one PREFLUSH bio per dirty device, submit them all, then wait for > every completion, returning the first error seen (0 if all succeed). > This bounds the flush window by the slowest device rather than the sum > of all of them. No caller depends on the previous early-abort > behaviour -- fsync only checks whether the return value is zero > (fs/f2fs/file.c). The checkpoint path (f2fs_flush_device_cache) is > unaffected; this only touches the fsync flush path. > > The per-device bio/completion array is small and bounded (at most > MAX_DEVICES entries), so allocate it with __GFP_NOFAIL rather than > keeping a separate serial fallback path for allocation failure. > > Signed-off-by: Yonggil Song <[email protected]> > --- > fs/f2fs/segment.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- > 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.c b/fs/f2fs/segment.c > index d71ddb3ee918..f3d3343e012f 100644 > --- a/fs/f2fs/segment.c > +++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.c > @@ -566,21 +566,63 @@ static int __submit_flush_wait(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, > return ret; > } > > +static void f2fs_flush_end_io(struct bio *bio) > +{ > + complete(bio->bi_private); > +} > + > +struct f2fs_flush_bio { > + struct bio bio; > + struct completion wait; > +}; > + > static int submit_flush_wait(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, nid_t ino) > { > + struct f2fs_flush_bio *flush_bio; > + unsigned long devices = 0; > int ret = 0; > int i; > > if (!f2fs_is_multi_device(sbi)) > return __submit_flush_wait(sbi, sbi->sb->s_bdev); > > + flush_bio = kmalloc(array_size(sbi->s_ndevs, sizeof(*flush_bio)), > + GFP_NOFS | __GFP_NOFAIL); > + > for (i = 0; i < sbi->s_ndevs; i++) { > if (!f2fs_is_dirty_device(sbi, ino, i, FLUSH_INO)) > continue; > - ret = __submit_flush_wait(sbi, FDEV(i).bdev); > - if (ret) > - break; > + > + bio_init(&flush_bio[i].bio, FDEV(i).bdev, NULL, 0, > + REQ_OP_WRITE | REQ_SYNC | REQ_PREFLUSH); > + init_completion(&flush_bio[i].wait); > + flush_bio[i].bio.bi_private = &flush_bio[i].wait; > + flush_bio[i].bio.bi_end_io = f2fs_flush_end_io; > + devices |= BIT(i); Can we submit bio here? Thanks, > + } > + > + for (i = 0; i < sbi->s_ndevs; i++) { > + if (devices & BIT(i)) > + submit_bio(&flush_bio[i].bio); > + } > + > + for (i = 0; i < sbi->s_ndevs; i++) { > + int err; > + > + if (!(devices & BIT(i))) > + continue; > + > + wait_for_completion(&flush_bio[i].wait); > + err = blk_status_to_errno(flush_bio[i].bio.bi_status); > + trace_f2fs_issue_flush(FDEV(i).bdev, test_opt(sbi, NOBARRIER), > + test_opt(sbi, FLUSH_MERGE), err); > + if (!err) > + f2fs_update_iostat(sbi, NULL, FS_FLUSH_IO, 0); > + else if (!ret) > + ret = err; > + bio_uninit(&flush_bio[i].bio); > } > + kfree(flush_bio); > return ret; > } > _______________________________________________ Linux-f2fs-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-f2fs-devel