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authorJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>2015-01-06 01:02:20 +0100
committerJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>2015-01-10 02:02:27 +0100
commit38aa0889b2504bbe68e47f51cf73bf7f0a7246bd (patch)
treebfe9f9ed78dfd70dfec64a83a87835279ecefbf3 /fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
parentf2fs: remove uncovered code path (diff)
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f2fs: align direct_io'ed data to section
This patch aligns the start block address of a file for direct io to the f2fs's section size. Some flash devices manage an over 4KB-sized page as a write unit, and if the direct_io'ed data are written but not aligned to that unit, the performance can be degraded due to the partial page copies. Thus, since f2fs has a section that is well aligned to FTL units, we can align the block address to the section size so that f2fs avoids this misalignment. Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/f2fs/f2fs.h')
-rw-r--r--fs/f2fs/f2fs.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
index 37e935a362cd..ba30218770da 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
+++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
@@ -406,7 +406,8 @@ enum {
CURSEG_HOT_NODE, /* direct node blocks of directory files */
CURSEG_WARM_NODE, /* direct node blocks of normal files */
CURSEG_COLD_NODE, /* indirect node blocks */
- NO_CHECK_TYPE
+ NO_CHECK_TYPE,
+ CURSEG_DIRECT_IO, /* to use for the direct IO path */
};
struct flush_cmd {