linux-kernel - Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH 0/8] some cleanup of inline flag checking

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Date:	Fri, 11 Mar 2016 14:34:28 +0800
From:	Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@...nel-upstream.org>
To:	Chao Yu <chao2.yu@...sung.com>,
	'Shawn Lin' <shawn.lin@...k-chips.com>,
	'Jaegeuk Kim' <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
Cc:	shawn.lin@...nel-upstream.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH 0/8] some cleanup of inline flag checking

Hi Chao Yu,

On 2016/3/11 13:29, Chao Yu wrote:
> Hi Shawn,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Shawn Lin [mailto:shawn.lin@...k-chips.com]
>> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 11:28 AM
>> To: Jaegeuk Kim
>> Cc: Shawn Lin; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH 0/8] some cleanup of inline flag checking
>>
>>
>> This patchset is going to remove some redunant checking
>> of inline data flag and also going to avoid some unnecessary
>> cpu waste when doing inline stuff.
>
> When we are accessing inline inode, inline inode conversion can happen
> concurrently, we should check inline flag again under inode page's lock
> to avoid accessing the wrong inline data which may have been converted.
>

that sounds reasonable at first glance, and it more seems like that
mopst part of this patchset is just puting the checking in the right way.

If we need to check the inline inode under the protection of inode
page's lock, it means any callers who calling inline API stuff is
wasting time on checing the flag outside the API, right?

So we can just remove the redundant checking of the caller, but not
change the behaviour of checing inline flag under page's lock?

Thanks for catching it.

> Thanks,
>
>>
>> Note:
>> Sorry for sending previous four patches in separate, let
>> drop them and make them in this thread for better review.
>>
>>
>>
>> Shawn Lin (8):
>>    f2fs: check inline flag ahead for f2fs_write_inline_data
>>    f2fs: remove checing inline data flag for f2fs_write_data_page
>>    f2fs: check inline flag ahead for f2fs_read_inline_data
>>    f2fs: remove redundant checking of inline data flag
>>    f2fs: f2fs: check inline flag ahead for f2fs_inline_data_fiemap
>>    f2fs: remove checing inline data flag for f2fs_fiemap
>>    f2fs: remove unnecessary inline checking for f2fs_convert_inline_inode
>>    f2fs: check inline flag ahead for get_dnode_of_data
>>
>>   fs/f2fs/data.c   | 17 +++++++----------
>>   fs/f2fs/inline.c | 27 ++++++++++-----------------
>>   fs/f2fs/node.c   | 12 +++++-------
>>   3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
>>
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