f2fs: expose f2fs_write_cache_pages
If there are gced dirty pages and normal dirty pages in the mapping of one inode, we might writeback them alternately with discontinuous block address, resulting in low performance. This patch introduces f2fs_write_cache_pages with codes copied from write_cache_pages in mm/page-writeback.c. In this function, we refactor flow with two steps: 1) writeback all cold type pages. 2) writeback all non-cold type pages. By using this method, f2fs will writeback dirty pages with the same temperature in bunch mode, it makes writeouted block being with more continuous address, so they can be merged as much as possible in f2fs bio cache, and also it will reduce the chance of submiting small IO from block layer. Test environment: 8g nokia sd card (very old sd card, but it shows better effect when testing with this patch, and with a 32g kingston sd card, I didn't see much more improvement). Test step: 1. touch testfile; 2. truncate -s 512K testfile; 3. write all pages with odd index; 4. trigger gc by ioctl; 5. write all pages with even index; 6. time fsync testfile. before: real 0m0.402s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s after: real 0m0.143s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.004s Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
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