[f2fs-dev] [PATCH v3] f2fs: issue multi-device flushes in parallel

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 | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.c b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
index d71ddb3ee918..5c7a3992cf60 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/segment.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
@@ -566,21 +566,59 @@ 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);
+		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;
 }
 
-- 
2.43.0



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