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f2fs: avoid frequent checkpoint during f2fs_gc

Now we're doing SSR aggressively more than ever before, so once we reach to
the reserved_segment, f2fs_balance_fs will call f2fs_gc, which triggers
checkpoint everytime. We actually must avoid that.

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Jaegeuk Kim 8 years ago
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1 changed files with 5 additions and 3 deletions
  1. 5 3
      fs/f2fs/gc.c

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fs/f2fs/gc.c

@@ -966,9 +966,11 @@ gc_more:
 		 * threshold, we can make them free by checkpoint. Then, we
 		 * secure free segments which doesn't need fggc any more.
 		 */
-		ret = write_checkpoint(sbi, &cpc);
-		if (ret)
-			goto stop;
+		if (prefree_segments(sbi)) {
+			ret = write_checkpoint(sbi, &cpc);
+			if (ret)
+				goto stop;
+		}
 		if (has_not_enough_free_secs(sbi, 0, 0))
 			gc_type = FG_GC;
 	}