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

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Date:   Tue, 23 Jul 2019 00:27:16 +0800
From:   Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@....com>
To:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
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 2019/7/22 ????11:12, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 10:16:44PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
>> OK, I will give a try. One point I think is how to deal with the case
>> if there is already cached information when remounting as well as you said.
>>
>> As the first step, maybe the mount option can be defined as
>> allowing/forbiding caching from now on, which can be refined later.
> 
> Yes; possible solutions include ignoring the issue (assuming that
> cached data structures that "shouldn't" be in the cache given the new
> cache strategy will fall out of the cache over time), forcibly
> flushing the cache when the caching strategy has changed, and of
> course, forbidding caching strategy change at remount time.

Okay, thanks for your kindly suggestion :)

will do, hopefully resend this week (I agree less bugs with less
kernel configs.).

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 					- Ted
>