linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 3/5] btrfs: Add zstd support

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Date:   Fri, 11 Aug 2017 03:23:04 +0000
From:   Nick Terrell <terrelln@...com>
To:     Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>
CC:     "Austin S . Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@...il.com>,
        Kernel Team <Kernel-team@...com>, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        Yann Collet <cyan@...com>, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>,
        "linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/5] btrfs: Add zstd support

On 8/10/17, 7:13 PM, "Adam Borowski" <kilobyte@...band.pl> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 07:39:02PM -0700, Nick Terrell wrote:
>> Add zstd compression and decompression support to BtrFS.
> 
> Re-tested on arm64, amd64 and i386, this time everything seems fine so far.
> 
> As I'm too lazy to have a separate test setup for the zlib level patch,
> I'm using a dummy implementation:
> 
> --- a/fs/btrfs/zstd.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/zstd.c
> @@ -423,10 +423,16 @@ static int zstd_decompress(struct list_head *ws, unsigned char *data_in,
>         return ret;
>  }
>  
> +static void zstd_set_level(struct list_head *ws, unsigned int type)
> +{
> +       // TODO
> +}
> +
>  const struct btrfs_compress_op btrfs_zstd_compress = {
>         .alloc_workspace = zstd_alloc_workspace,
>         .free_workspace = zstd_free_workspace,
>         .compress_pages = zstd_compress_pages,
>         .decompress_bio = zstd_decompress_bio,
>         .decompress = zstd_decompress,
> +       .set_level = zstd_set_level,
>  };
> 
> 
> It might be worthwhile to do some early testing using different levels,
> though.

I'll run some preliminary tests and make sure nothing blows up and the
compression ratio looks good.

> 
> 
> 喵!
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