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    f2fs: introduce f2fs_issue_flush to avoid redundant flush issue · 6b4afdd7
    Jaegeuk Kim authored
    
    
    Some storage devices show relatively high latencies to complete cache_flush
    commands, even though their normal IO speed is prettry much high. In such
    the case, it needs to merge cache_flush commands as much as possible to avoid
    issuing them redundantly.
    So, this patch introduces a mount option, "-o flush_merge", to mitigate such
    the overhead.
    
    If this option is enabled by user, F2FS merges the cache_flush commands and then
    issues just one cache_flush on behalf of them. Once the single command is
    finished, F2FS sends a completion signal to all the pending threads.
    
    Note that, this option can be used under a workload consisting of very intensive
    concurrent fsync calls, while the storage handles cache_flush commands slowly.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
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