Re: [PATCH 2/2] f2fs: add sysfs support for controlling the gc_thread

[Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>]

Hi,

2013-06-26 (수), 14:10 +0900, Namjae Jeon:
> 2013/6/25, Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>:
> >> > - any priority scheme for cleaning?
> >> Could you plz tell me a little more detail ?
> >
> > I meant, as well as the GC times, user also gives a kind of status like:
> > LONG_IDLE, SHORT_IDLE, something like that.
> > Therefore, how about using this information to select a victim selection
> > policy between cost-benefit and greedy algorithms?
> currently we will provide the option of updating the time values from
> the ‘sysfs’ interface, and the GC policy is selected by default from
> GC thread based upon the gc type, BG or FG.
> So, do you mean we should provide an option to select the default GC
> policy for the user using ‘sysfs’ interface? Like, if the user sets
> “LONG_IDLE” – we choose Cost Benefit and in case of SHORT_IDLE
> “Greedy” ? Please elaborate more on this.

Yes, exact.
For example, if an user configures a small period of GC interval but
gives LONG_IDLE, we can choose cost-benefit.
But, if SHORT_IDLE is given with a long GC period, we need to choose
greedy.
How do you think?
Thanks,

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Jaegeuk Kim
Samsung