tree 01b2bcb79b2ecc5ea5aed8cfeb8e68e41e3a847f
parent 45b70947a425fa121a8b9bcbb77472d9e35def6a
author Yunji Kang <yunji0.kang@samsung.com> 1758699838 +0900
committer Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> 1759089881 +0000

f2fs: readahead node blocks in F2FS_GET_BLOCK_PRECACHE mode

In f2fs_precache_extents(), For large files, It requires reading many
node blocks. Instead of reading each node block with synchronous I/O,
this patch applies readahead so that node blocks can be fetched in
advance.

It reduces the overhead of repeated sync reads and improves efficiency
when precaching extents of large files.

I created a file with the same largest extent and executed the test.
For this experiment, I set the file's largest extent with an offset of 0
and a size of 1GB. I configured the remaining area with 100MB extents.

5GB test file:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=test1 bs=1m count=5120
cp test1 test2
fsync test1
dd if=test1 of=test2 bs=1m skip=1024 seek=1024 count=100 conv=notrunc
dd if=test1 of=test2 bs=1m skip=1224 seek=1224 count=100 conv=notrunc
...
dd if=test1 of=test2 bs=1m skip=5024 seek=5024 count=100 conv=notrunc
reboot

I also created 10GB and 20GB files with large extents using the same
method.

ioctl(F2FS_IOC_PRECACHE_EXTENTS) test results are as follows:
  +-----------+---------+---------+-----------+
  | File size | Before  | After   | Reduction |
  +-----------+---------+---------+-----------+
  | 5GB       | 101.8ms | 37.0ms  | 72.1%     |
  | 10GB      | 222.9ms | 56.0ms  | 74.9%     |
  | 20GB      | 446.2ms | 116.4ms | 73.9%     |
  +-----------+---------+---------+-----------+
Tested on a 256GB mobile device with an SM8750 chipset.

Reviewed-by: Sungjong Seo <sj1557.seo@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Sunmin Jeong <s_min.jeong@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Yunji Kang <yunji0.kang@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>