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What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_max_sleep_time
Date: July 2013
Contact: "Namjae Jeon" <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
-Description:
- Controls the maximun sleep time for gc_thread. Time
- is in milliseconds.
+Description: Controls the maximum sleep time for gc_thread. Time
+ is in milliseconds.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_min_sleep_time
Date: July 2013
Contact: "Namjae Jeon" <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
-Description:
- Controls the minimum sleep time for gc_thread. Time
- is in milliseconds.
+Description: Controls the minimum sleep time for gc_thread. Time
+ is in milliseconds.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_no_gc_sleep_time
Date: July 2013
Contact: "Namjae Jeon" <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
-Description:
- Controls the default sleep time for gc_thread. Time
- is in milliseconds.
+Description: Controls the default sleep time for gc_thread. Time
+ is in milliseconds.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_idle
Date: July 2013
Contact: "Namjae Jeon" <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
-Description:
- Controls the victim selection policy for garbage collection.
+Description: Controls the victim selection policy for garbage collection.
+ Setting gc_idle = 0(default) will disable this option. Setting
+ gc_idle = 1 will select the Cost Benefit approach & setting
+ gc_idle = 2 will select the greedy approach.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/reclaim_segments
Date: October 2013
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
-Description:
- Controls the issue rate of segment discard commands.
-
-What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/max_blkaddr
+Description: This parameter controls the number of prefree segments to be
+ reclaimed. If the number of prefree segments is larger than
+ the number of segments in the proportion to the percentage
+ over total volume size, f2fs tries to conduct checkpoint to
+ reclaim the prefree segments to free segments.
+ By default, 5% over total # of segments.
+
+What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/main_blkaddr
Date: November 2019
Contact: "Ramon Pantin" <pantin@google.com>
Description:
@@ -40,227 +43,231 @@ Description:
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/ipu_policy
Date: November 2013
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
-Description:
- Controls the in-place-update policy.
+Description: Controls the in-place-update policy.
+ updates in f2fs. User can set:
+ 0x01: F2FS_IPU_FORCE, 0x02: F2FS_IPU_SSR,
+ 0x04: F2FS_IPU_UTIL, 0x08: F2FS_IPU_SSR_UTIL,
+ 0x10: F2FS_IPU_FSYNC, 0x20: F2FS_IPU_ASYNC,
+ 0x40: F2FS_IPU_NOCACHE.
+ Refer segment.h for details.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/min_ipu_util
Date: November 2013
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
-Description:
- Controls the FS utilization condition for the in-place-update
- policies.
+Description: Controls the FS utilization condition for the in-place-update
+ policies. It is used by F2FS_IPU_UTIL and F2FS_IPU_SSR_UTIL policies.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/min_fsync_blocks
Date: September 2014
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
-Description:
- Controls the dirty page count condition for the in-place-update
- policies.
+Description: Controls the dirty page count condition for the in-place-update
+ policies.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/min_seq_blocks
Date: August 2018
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
-Description:
- Controls the dirty page count condition for batched sequential
- writes in ->writepages.
-
+Description: Controls the dirty page count condition for batched sequential
+ writes in writepages.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/min_hot_blocks
Date: March 2017
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
-Description:
- Controls the dirty page count condition for redefining hot data.
+Description: Controls the dirty page count condition for redefining hot data.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/min_ssr_sections
Date: October 2017
Contact: "Chao Yu" <yuchao0@huawei.com>
-Description:
- Controls the fee section threshold to trigger SSR allocation.
+Description: Controls the free section threshold to trigger SSR allocation.
+ If this is large, SSR mode will be enabled early.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/max_small_discards
Date: November 2013
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
-Description:
- Controls the issue rate of small discard commands.
+Description: Controls the issue rate of discard commands that consist of small
+ blocks less than 2MB. The candidates to be discarded are cached until
+ checkpoint is triggered, and issued during the checkpoint.
+ By default, it is disabled with 0.
-What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/discard_granularity
-Date: July 2017
-Contact: "Chao Yu" <yuchao0@huawei.com>
-Description:
- Controls discard granularity of inner discard thread, inner thread
+What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/discard_granularity
+Date: July 2017
+Contact: "Chao Yu" <yuchao0@huawei.com>
+Description: Controls discard granularity of inner discard thread. Inner thread
will not issue discards with size that is smaller than granularity.
- The unit size is one block, now only support configuring in range
- of [1, 512].
+ The unit size is one block(4KB), now only support configuring
+ in range of [1, 512]. Default value is 4(=16KB).
-What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/umount_discard_timeout
-Date: January 2019
-Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
-Description:
- Set timeout to issue discard commands during umount.
- Default: 5 secs
+What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/umount_discard_timeout
+Date: January 2019
+Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
+Description: Set timeout to issue discard commands during umount.
+ Default: 5 secs
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/max_victim_search
Date: January 2014
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
-Description:
- Controls the number of trials to find a victim segment.
+Description: Controls the number of trials to find a victim segment
+ when conducting SSR and cleaning operations. The default value
+ is 4096 which covers 8GB block address range.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/migration_granularity
Date: October 2018
Contact: "Chao Yu" <yuchao0@huawei.com>
-Description:
- Controls migration granularity of garbage collection on large
- section, it can let GC move partial segment{s} of one section
- in one GC cycle, so that dispersing heavy overhead GC to
- multiple lightweight one.
+Description: Controls migration granularity of garbage collection on large
+ section, it can let GC move partial segment{s} of one section
+ in one GC cycle, so that dispersing heavy overhead GC to
+ multiple lightweight one.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/dir_level
Date: March 2014
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
-Description:
- Controls the directory level for large directory.
+Description: Controls the directory level for large directory. If a
+ directory has a number of files, it can reduce the file lookup
+ latency by increasing this dir_level value. Otherwise, it
+ needs to decrease this value to reduce the space overhead.
+ The default value is 0.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/ram_thresh
Date: March 2014
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
-Description:
- Controls the memory footprint used by f2fs.
+Description: Controls the memory footprint used by free nids and cached
+ nat entries. By default, 1 is set, which indicates
+ 10 MB / 1 GB RAM.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/batched_trim_sections
Date: February 2015
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
-Description:
- Controls the trimming rate in batch mode.
- <deprecated>
+Description: Controls the trimming rate in batch mode.
+ <deprecated>
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/cp_interval
Date: October 2015
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
-Description:
- Controls the checkpoint timing.
+Description: Controls the checkpoint timing, set to 60 seconds by default.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/idle_interval
Date: January 2016
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
-Description:
- Controls the idle timing for all paths other than
- discard and gc path.
+Description: Controls the idle timing of system, if there is no FS operation
+ during given interval.
+ Set to 5 seconds by default.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/discard_idle_interval
Date: September 2018
Contact: "Chao Yu" <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Contact: "Sahitya Tummala" <stummala@codeaurora.org>
-Description:
- Controls the idle timing for discard path.
+Description: Controls the idle timing of discard thread given
+ this time interval.
+ Default is 5 secs.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_idle_interval
Date: September 2018
Contact: "Chao Yu" <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Contact: "Sahitya Tummala" <stummala@codeaurora.org>
-Description:
- Controls the idle timing for gc path.
+Description: Controls the idle timing for gc path. Set to 5 seconds by default.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/iostat_enable
Date: August 2017
Contact: "Chao Yu" <yuchao0@huawei.com>
-Description:
- Controls to enable/disable IO stat.
+Description: Controls to enable/disable IO stat.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/ra_nid_pages
Date: October 2015
Contact: "Chao Yu" <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
-Description:
- Controls the count of nid pages to be readaheaded.
+Description: Controls the count of nid pages to be readaheaded.
+ When building free nids, F2FS reads NAT blocks ahead for
+ speed up. Default is 0.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/dirty_nats_ratio
Date: January 2016
Contact: "Chao Yu" <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
-Description:
- Controls dirty nat entries ratio threshold, if current
- ratio exceeds configured threshold, checkpoint will
- be triggered for flushing dirty nat entries.
+Description: Controls dirty nat entries ratio threshold, if current
+ ratio exceeds configured threshold, checkpoint will
+ be triggered for flushing dirty nat entries.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/lifetime_write_kbytes
Date: January 2016
Contact: "Shuoran Liu" <liushuoran@huawei.com>
-Description:
- Shows total written kbytes issued to disk.
+Description: Shows total written kbytes issued to disk.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/features
Date: July 2017
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
-Description:
- Shows all enabled features in current device.
+Description: Shows all enabled features in current device.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/inject_rate
Date: May 2016
Contact: "Sheng Yong" <shengyong1@huawei.com>
-Description:
- Controls the injection rate.
+Description: Controls the injection rate of arbitrary faults.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/inject_type
Date: May 2016
Contact: "Sheng Yong" <shengyong1@huawei.com>
-Description:
- Controls the injection type.
+Description: Controls the injection type of arbitrary faults.
+
+What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/dirty_segments
+Date: October 2017
+Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
+Description: Shows the number of dirty segments.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/reserved_blocks
Date: June 2017
Contact: "Chao Yu" <yuchao0@huawei.com>
-Description:
- Controls target reserved blocks in system, the threshold
- is soft, it could exceed current available user space.
+Description: Controls target reserved blocks in system, the threshold
+ is soft, it could exceed current available user space.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/current_reserved_blocks
Date: October 2017
Contact: "Yunlong Song" <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Contact: "Chao Yu" <yuchao0@huawei.com>
-Description:
- Shows current reserved blocks in system, it may be temporarily
- smaller than target_reserved_blocks, but will gradually
- increase to target_reserved_blocks when more free blocks are
- freed by user later.
+Description: Shows current reserved blocks in system, it may be temporarily
+ smaller than target_reserved_blocks, but will gradually
+ increase to target_reserved_blocks when more free blocks are
+ freed by user later.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_urgent
Date: August 2017
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
-Description:
- Do background GC agressively
+Description: Do background GC agressively when set. When gc_urgent = 1,
+ background thread starts to do GC by given gc_urgent_sleep_time
+ interval. It is set to 0 by default.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_urgent_sleep_time
Date: August 2017
Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
-Description:
- Controls sleep time of GC urgent mode
+Description: Controls sleep time of GC urgent mode. Set to 500ms by default.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/readdir_ra
Date: November 2017
Contact: "Sheng Yong" <shengyong1@huawei.com>
-Description:
- Controls readahead inode block in readdir.
+Description: Controls readahead inode block in readdir. Enabled by default.
+
+What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_pin_file_thresh
+Date: January 2018
+Contact: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
+Description: This indicates how many GC can be failed for the pinned
+ file. If it exceeds this, F2FS doesn't guarantee its pinning
+ state. 2048 trials is set by default.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/extension_list
Date: Feburary 2018
Contact: "Chao Yu" <yuchao0@huawei.com>
-Description:
- Used to control configure extension list:
- - Query: cat /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/extension_list
- - Add: echo '[h/c]extension' > /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/extension_list
- - Del: echo '[h/c]!extension' > /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/extension_list
- - [h] means add/del hot file extension
- - [c] means add/del cold file extension
+Description: Used to control configure extension list:
+ - Query: cat /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/extension_list
+ - Add: echo '[h/c]extension' > /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/extension_list
+ - Del: echo '[h/c]!extension' > /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/extension_list
+ - [h] means add/del hot file extension
+ - [c] means add/del cold file extension
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/unusable
Date April 2019
Contact: "Daniel Rosenberg" <drosen@google.com>
-Description:
- If checkpoint=disable, it displays the number of blocks that are unusable.
- If checkpoint=enable it displays the enumber of blocks that would be unusable
- if checkpoint=disable were to be set.
+Description: If checkpoint=disable, it displays the number of blocks that
+ are unusable.
+ If checkpoint=enable it displays the enumber of blocks that
+ would be unusable if checkpoint=disable were to be set.
What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/encoding
Date July 2019
Contact: "Daniel Rosenberg" <drosen@google.com>
-Description:
- Displays name and version of the encoding set for the filesystem.
- If no encoding is set, displays (none)
+Description: Displays name and version of the encoding set for the filesystem.
+ If no encoding is set, displays (none)