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    f2fs: give a chance to merge IOs by IO scheduler · c718379b
    Jaegeuk Kim authored
    
    
    Previously, background GC submits many 4KB read requests to load victim blocks
    and/or its (i)node blocks.
    
    ...
    f2fs_gc : f2fs_readpage: ino = 1, page_index = 0xb61, blkaddr = 0x3b964ed
    f2fs_gc : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 499854968 + 8 [0]
    f2fs_gc : f2fs_readpage: ino = 1, page_index = 0xb6f, blkaddr = 0x3b964ee
    f2fs_gc : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 499854976 + 8 [0]
    f2fs_gc : f2fs_readpage: ino = 1, page_index = 0xb79, blkaddr = 0x3b964ef
    f2fs_gc : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 499854984 + 8 [0]
    ...
    
    However, by the fact that many IOs are sequential, we can give a chance to merge
    the IOs by IO scheduler.
    In order to do that, let's use blk_plug.
    
    ...
    f2fs_gc : f2fs_iget: ino = 143
    f2fs_gc : f2fs_readpage: ino = 143, page_index = 0x1c6, blkaddr = 0x2e6ee
    f2fs_gc : f2fs_iget: ino = 143
    f2fs_gc : f2fs_readpage: ino = 143, page_index = 0x1c7, blkaddr = 0x2e6ef
    <idle> : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1519616 + 8 [0]
    <idle> : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1519848 + 8 [0]
    <idle> : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1520432 + 96 [0]
    <idle> : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1520536 + 104 [0]
    <idle> : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1521008 + 112 [0]
    <idle> : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1521440 + 152 [0]
    <idle> : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1521688 + 144 [0]
    <idle> : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1522128 + 192 [0]
    <idle> : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1523256 + 328 [0]
    ...
    
    Note that this issue should be addressed in checkpoint, and some readahead
    flows too.
    
    Reviewed-by: default avatarNamjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
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