On 09/09, Chao Yu wrote:
> On 2019/9/9 16:06, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> > On 09/09, Chao Yu wrote:
> >> On 2019/9/9 9:25, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> >>> GC must avoid select the same victim again.
> >>
> >> Blocks in previous victim will occupy addition free segment, I doubt after 
> >> this
> >> change, FGGC may encounter out-of-free space issue more frequently.
> > 
> > Hmm, actually this change seems wrong by sec_usage_check().
> > We may be able to avoid this only in the suspicious loop?
> > 
> > ---
> >  fs/f2fs/gc.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.c b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
> > index e88f98ddf396..5877bd729689 100644
> > --- a/fs/f2fs/gc.c
> > +++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
> > @@ -1326,7 +1326,7 @@ int f2fs_gc(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, bool sync,
> >             round++;
> >     }
> >  
> > -   if (gc_type == FG_GC)
> > +   if (gc_type == FG_GC && seg_freed)
> 
> That's original solution Sahitya provided to avoid infinite loop of GC, but I
> suggest to find the root cause first, then we added .invalid_segmap for that
> purpose.

I've checked the Sahitya's patch. So, it seems the problem can happen due to
is_alive or atomic_file.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> >             sbi->cur_victim_sec = NULL_SEGNO;
> >  
> >     if (sync)
> > 

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