As comment says, we don't need to call f2fs_lock_op in write_inode to prevent from producing dirty node pages all the time. That happens only when there is not enough free sections and we can avoid that by calling balance_fs in prior to that. Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/f2fs/inode.c | 10 +++------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/f2fs/inode.c b/fs/f2fs/inode.c index 35aae65..0fc4d02 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/inode.c @@ -296,16 +296,12 @@ int f2fs_write_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc) return 0; /* - * We need to lock here to prevent from producing dirty node pages + * We need to balance fs here to prevent from producing dirty node pages * during the urgent cleaning time when runing out of free sections. */ - f2fs_lock_op(sbi); - update_inode_page(inode); - f2fs_unlock_op(sbi); - - if (wbc) - f2fs_balance_fs(sbi); + f2fs_balance_fs(sbi); + update_inode_page(inode); return 0; } -- 2.1.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html