From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750936AbdEBB5v (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 May 2017 21:57:51 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.136]:58974 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750723AbdEBB5t (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 May 2017 21:57:49 -0400 From: Jaegeuk Kim To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Jaegeuk Kim Subject: [PATCH 1/2] f2fs: flush dirty nats periodically Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 18:57:43 -0700 Message-Id: <20170502015744.87736-1-jaegeuk@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.11.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This patch flushes dirty nats in order to acquire available nids by writing checkpoint. Otherwise, we can have no chance to get freed nids. Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim --- fs/f2fs/segment.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.c b/fs/f2fs/segment.c index a32268eeb472..6e1c8cf75749 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/segment.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.c @@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ void f2fs_balance_fs_bg(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi) else build_free_nids(sbi, false, false); - if (!is_idle(sbi)) + if (!is_idle(sbi) && !excess_dirty_nats(sbi)) return; /* checkpoint is the only way to shrink partial cached entries */ -- 2.11.0