linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 23/24] erofs: introduce cached decompression

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Date:   Mon, 22 Jul 2019 09:25:13 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@....com>
Cc:     dsterba@...e.cz, Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org, Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>,
        Miao Xie <miaoxie@...wei.com>,
        Li Guifu <bluce.liguifu@...wei.com>,
        Fang Wei <fangwei1@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 23/24] erofs: introduce cached decompression

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 06:58:59PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> > The number of individual Kconfig options is quite high, are you sure you
> > need them to be split like that?
> 
> You mean the above? these are 3 cache strategies, which impact the
> runtime memory consumption and performance. I tend to leave the above
> as it-is...

Unless cache strategies involve a huge amount of kernel code, I'd
recommend always compiling all of the cache strategies, and then have
a way to change the cache strategy via a mount option (and possibly
remount, although that can get tricky if there is already cached
information).  You could also specify a default in the erofs
superblock, you think that would be useful.

	    	      	   	    - Ted