f2fs: reclaim prefree segments periodically
Previously, f2fs postpones reclaiming prefree segments into free segments
as much as possible.
However, if user writes and deletes a bunch of data without any sync or fsync
calls, some flash storages can suffer from garbage collections.
So, this patch adds the reclaiming codes to f2fs_write_node_pages and background
GC thread.
If there are a lot of prefree segments, let's do checkpoint so that f2fs
submits discard commands for the prefree regions to the flash storage.
Signed-off-by: Changman Lee <cm224.lee@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.c b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
index 177a33b..62b52f2 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/segment.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
@@ -1645,6 +1645,7 @@
sm_info->ovp_segments = le32_to_cpu(ckpt->overprov_segment_count);
sm_info->main_segments = le32_to_cpu(raw_super->segment_count_main);
sm_info->ssa_blkaddr = le32_to_cpu(raw_super->ssa_blkaddr);
+ sm_info->rec_prefree_segments = DEF_RECLAIM_PREFREE_SEGMENTS;
err = build_sit_info(sbi);
if (err)