[PATCH 2/2] f2fs: no need to lock for update_inode_page all the time

From: Jaegeuk Kim
Date: Tue Sep 15 2015 - 12:55:58 EST


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

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