diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs
index 0345f2d1c727..bc8fbfa1c800 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs
@@ -75,12 +75,6 @@ Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
 Description:
 		 Controls the memory footprint used by f2fs.
 
-What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/trim_sections
-Date:		February 2015
-Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
-Description:
-		 Controls the trimming rate in batch mode.
-
 What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/cp_interval
 Date:		October 2015
 Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
index 167c5f841b5f..dc436f780295 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
+++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
@@ -195,11 +195,7 @@ enum {
 	CP_DISCARD,
 };
 
-#define DEF_BATCHED_TRIM_SECTIONS	2
-#define BATCHED_TRIM_SEGMENTS(sbi)	\
-		(SM_I(sbi)->trim_sections * (sbi)->segs_per_sec)
-#define BATCHED_TRIM_BLOCKS(sbi)	\
-		(BATCHED_TRIM_SEGMENTS(sbi) << (sbi)->log_blocks_per_seg)
+#define MAX_DISCARD_BLOCKS(sbi) (1 << (sbi)->log_blocks_per_seg)
 #define DEF_CP_INTERVAL			60	/* 60 secs */
 #define DEF_IDLE_INTERVAL		5	/* 5 secs */
 
@@ -705,9 +701,6 @@ struct f2fs_sm_info {
 	int nr_discards;			/* # of discards in the list */
 	int max_discards;			/* max. discards to be issued */
 
-	/* for batched trimming */
-	unsigned int trim_sections;		/* # of sections to trim */
-
 	struct list_head sit_entry_set;	/* sit entry set list */
 
 	unsigned int ipu_policy;	/* in-place-update policy */
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.c b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
index 289b3facd2d8..245ba28529b1 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/segment.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
@@ -903,7 +903,8 @@ static void __add_discard_entry(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
 	if (!list_empty(head)) {
 		last = list_last_entry(head, struct discard_entry, list);
 		if (START_BLOCK(sbi, cpc->trim_start) + start ==
-						last->blkaddr + last->len) {
+				last->blkaddr + last->len &&
+				last->len <= MAX_DISCARD_BLOCKS(sbi)) {
 			last->len += end - start;
 			goto done;
 		}
@@ -1593,36 +1594,25 @@ int f2fs_trim_fs(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, struct fstrim_range *range)
 			"Found FS corruption, run fsck to fix.");
 		goto out;
 	}
+	if (sbi->discard_blks == 0)
+		goto out;
 
 	/* start/end segment number in main_area */
 	start_segno = (start <= MAIN_BLKADDR(sbi)) ? 0 : GET_SEGNO(sbi, start);
 	end_segno = (end >= MAX_BLKADDR(sbi)) ? MAIN_SEGS(sbi) - 1 :
 						GET_SEGNO(sbi, end);
+	/*
+	 * do checkpoint to issue discard commands safely since we now can
+	 * use async discard.
+	 */
 	cpc.reason = CP_DISCARD;
 	cpc.trim_minlen = max_t(__u64, 1, F2FS_BYTES_TO_BLK(range->minlen));
+	cpc.trim_start = start_segno;
+	cpc.trim_end = end_segno;
 
-	/* do checkpoint to issue discard commands safely */
-	for (; start_segno <= end_segno; start_segno = cpc.trim_end + 1) {
-		cpc.trim_start = start_segno;
-
-		if (sbi->discard_blks == 0)
-			break;
-		else if (sbi->discard_blks < BATCHED_TRIM_BLOCKS(sbi))
-			cpc.trim_end = end_segno;
-		else
-			cpc.trim_end = min_t(unsigned int,
-				rounddown(start_segno +
-				BATCHED_TRIM_SEGMENTS(sbi),
-				sbi->segs_per_sec) - 1, end_segno);
-
-		mutex_lock(&sbi->gc_mutex);
-		err = write_checkpoint(sbi, &cpc);
-		mutex_unlock(&sbi->gc_mutex);
-		if (err)
-			break;
-
-		schedule();
-	}
+	mutex_lock(&sbi->gc_mutex);
+	err = write_checkpoint(sbi, &cpc);
+	mutex_unlock(&sbi->gc_mutex);
 out:
 	range->len = F2FS_BLK_TO_BYTES(cpc.trimmed);
 	return err;
@@ -2788,8 +2778,6 @@ int build_segment_manager(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 	sm_info->nr_discards = 0;
 	sm_info->max_discards = 0;
 
-	sm_info->trim_sections = DEF_BATCHED_TRIM_SECTIONS;
-
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sm_info->sit_entry_set);
 
 	if (test_opt(sbi, FLUSH_MERGE) && !f2fs_readonly(sbi->sb)) {
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c
index 84d5686c4aa4..38d40670aed0 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c
@@ -284,7 +284,6 @@ F2FS_RW_ATTR(GC_THREAD, f2fs_gc_kthread, gc_no_gc_sleep_time, no_gc_sleep_time);
 F2FS_RW_ATTR(GC_THREAD, f2fs_gc_kthread, gc_idle, gc_idle);
 F2FS_RW_ATTR(SM_INFO, f2fs_sm_info, reclaim_segments, rec_prefree_segments);
 F2FS_RW_ATTR(SM_INFO, f2fs_sm_info, max_small_discards, max_discards);
-F2FS_RW_ATTR(SM_INFO, f2fs_sm_info, batched_trim_sections, trim_sections);
 F2FS_RW_ATTR(SM_INFO, f2fs_sm_info, ipu_policy, ipu_policy);
 F2FS_RW_ATTR(SM_INFO, f2fs_sm_info, min_ipu_util, min_ipu_util);
 F2FS_RW_ATTR(SM_INFO, f2fs_sm_info, min_fsync_blocks, min_fsync_blocks);
@@ -309,7 +308,6 @@ static struct attribute *f2fs_attrs[] = {
 	ATTR_LIST(gc_idle),
 	ATTR_LIST(reclaim_segments),
 	ATTR_LIST(max_small_discards),
-	ATTR_LIST(batched_trim_sections),
 	ATTR_LIST(ipu_policy),
 	ATTR_LIST(min_ipu_util),
 	ATTR_LIST(min_fsync_blocks),