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 <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx> --- 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
