From: Jaegeuk Kim Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 18:25:30 +0000 (-0700) Subject: f2fs: no need to lock for update_inode_page all the time X-Git-Url: http://git.osdn.net/view?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c5cd29d21cebc2e1802a9eea4cd940ddf9825ce1;p=sagit-ice-cold%2Fkernel_xiaomi_msm8998.git f2fs: no need to lock for update_inode_page all the time 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 --- diff --git a/fs/f2fs/inode.c b/fs/f2fs/inode.c index 35aae65b3e5d..97e20decacb4 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); return 0; }