diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c b/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c
index b4407ba12667d2fce91063e0a86d5be686bce310..475008fbbaab6ab1dd72e8264d54215bba0eb4ca 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@
 
 #define MAX_NEED_GC		64
 #define MAX_SAVE_PRIO		72
+#define MAX_GC_TIMES		100
 #define MIN_GC_NODES		100
 #define GC_SLEEP_MS		100
 
@@ -1522,6 +1523,32 @@ static unsigned btree_gc_count_keys(struct btree *b)
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static size_t btree_gc_min_nodes(struct cache_set *c)
+{
+	size_t min_nodes;
+
+	/*
+	 * Since incremental GC would stop 100ms when front
+	 * side I/O comes, so when there are many btree nodes,
+	 * if GC only processes constant (100) nodes each time,
+	 * GC would last a long time, and the front side I/Os
+	 * would run out of the buckets (since no new bucket
+	 * can be allocated during GC), and be blocked again.
+	 * So GC should not process constant nodes, but varied
+	 * nodes according to the number of btree nodes, which
+	 * realized by dividing GC into constant(100) times,
+	 * so when there are many btree nodes, GC can process
+	 * more nodes each time, otherwise, GC will process less
+	 * nodes each time (but no less than MIN_GC_NODES)
+	 */
+	min_nodes = c->gc_stats.nodes / MAX_GC_TIMES;
+	if (min_nodes < MIN_GC_NODES)
+		min_nodes = MIN_GC_NODES;
+
+	return min_nodes;
+}
+
+
 static int btree_gc_recurse(struct btree *b, struct btree_op *op,
 			    struct closure *writes, struct gc_stat *gc)
 {
@@ -1588,7 +1615,7 @@ static int btree_gc_recurse(struct btree *b, struct btree_op *op,
 		r->b = NULL;
 
 		if (atomic_read(&b->c->search_inflight) &&
-		    gc->nodes >= gc->nodes_pre + MIN_GC_NODES) {
+		    gc->nodes >= gc->nodes_pre + btree_gc_min_nodes(b->c)) {
 			gc->nodes_pre =  gc->nodes;
 			ret = -EAGAIN;
 			break;
@@ -1846,8 +1873,14 @@ static int bch_btree_check_recurse(struct btree *b, struct btree_op *op)
 		do {
 			k = bch_btree_iter_next_filter(&iter, &b->keys,
 						       bch_ptr_bad);
-			if (k)
+			if (k) {
 				btree_node_prefetch(b, k);
+				/*
+				 * initiallize c->gc_stats.nodes
+				 * for incremental GC
+				 */
+				b->c->gc_stats.nodes++;
+			}
 
 			if (p)
 				ret = btree(check_recurse, p, b, op);