Commit 763bfe1b authored by Jaegeuk Kim's avatar Jaegeuk Kim
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f2fs: remove reusing any prefree segments

This patch removes check_prefree_segments initially designed to enhance the
performance by narrowing the range of LBA usage across the whole block device.

When allocating a new segment, previous f2fs tries to find proper prefree
segments, and then, if finds a segment, it reuses the segment for further
data or node block allocation.

However, I found that this was totally wrong approach since the prefree segments
have several data or node blocks that will be used by the roll-forward mechanism
operated after sudden-power-off.

Let's assume the following scenario.

/* write 8MB with fsync */
for (i = 0; i < 2048; i++) {
	offset = i * 4096;
	write(fd, offset, 4KB);
	fsync(fd);
}

In this case, naive segment allocation sequence will be like:
 data segment: x, x+1, x+2, x+3
 node segment: y, y+1, y+2, y+3.

But, if we can reuse prefree segments, the sequence can be like:
 data segment: x, x+1, y, y+1
 node segment: y, y+1, y+2, y+3.
Because, y, y+1, and y+2 became pref...
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