linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] f2fs: flush stale issued discard candidates

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Message-Id: <20181214050127.45025-3-jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 13 Dec 2018 21:01:27 -0800
From:   Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Cc:     Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] f2fs: flush stale issued discard candidates

Sometimes, I could observe # of issuing_discard to be 1 which blocks background
jobs due to is_idle()=false.
The only way to get out of it was to trigger gc_urgent. This patch avoids that
by checking any candidates as done in the list.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
---
 fs/f2fs/segment.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.c b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
index 49ea9009ab5a..acbbc924e518 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/segment.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
@@ -1651,6 +1651,10 @@ static int issue_discard_thread(void *data)
 		if (dcc->discard_wake)
 			dcc->discard_wake = 0;
 
+		/* clean up pending candidates before going to sleep */
+		if (atomic_read(&dcc->queued_discard))
+			__wait_all_discard_cmd(sbi, NULL);
+
 		if (try_to_freeze())
 			continue;
 		if (f2fs_readonly(sbi->sb))
-- 
2.19.0.605.g01d371f741-goog